A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Stage A , Sunday 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM In 1969 a German oceanographer invented a new kind of tank that was able to keep jellyfish in captivity for the first time. The tank was the first to employ special water flow patterns to ensure the delicate bodies of the jellyfish were not sucked into filtration pumps and liquefied. After two decades of studying jellyfish in captivity, scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium realized jellyfish were nice to look at and they put up an exhibit entitled Jellyfish, Living Art. The exhibit was a huge success and now virtually every major public aquarium has a jellyfish exhibit. This talk will give all the necessary information to build your own jellyfish aquarium at minimal cost. We will go over tank design, food and jellyfish care. Although jellyfish husbandry is a new science, they are just as easy to take care of as regular fish once you know what you are doing.
Jellyfish are the latest in fish tanks and now you can keep one of your own in a desktop tank.
Alex Andon accumulated extensive experience in setting up aquariums for his own research projects at Duke and the University of Delaware. He founded Jellyfish Art on a platform of cutting-edge jellyfish breeding techniques that have been developed over the past decade. Alex has a B.S. from Duke in Biology and Environmental Science.
