Cnidarians are always cool to me because they feel like animals that thought really hard about becoming fungi or plants but decided to go with just barely squeaking through on being an animal.
@@Horny_Fruit_Flies Well... I'd call it a testimony to convergent evolution more than anything else. Just trying to reach a simular result with different ressources.
Based on the zoology class I am taking in high school (not that it gives me much expertise) being an animal is not a high bar at all. Sponges are also animals. Cnidarians do well more than barely squeak through.
@@haunted5311 sort of, there's actually also cnidarians who get their food through photosynthesis like plants. They use symbiotic cyanobacteria to turn light and carbon dioxide into sugar.
Moon jellyfish were on my "things I'll get once I'm rich" list, however now that I've heard how much work they require I think I'll just enjoy seeing them in a public aquarium.
@ImACaveSpider they are predators and are truly tentacular creatures, but the appeal couldn't be more different. Jellyfish are extremely simple creatures, they chill in the current to the whims of what the world gives them. squid are extremely active, incredibly intelligent, beautiful little sociopaths
@ImACaveSpider so far as I am aware squids came about in the Devonian Cephalopods as a whole came about around the Cambrian, but they've had plenty of time to diversify and loose their shells (except for the nautilus, they like their shells)
@ImACaveSpider complexity and lifespan aren't really indicative of one another. Cuttlefish and squids are neighbors in the tree of life, but cuttlefish on average have shorter lifespans Lifespan is less a function of complexity or intelligence, the closest link I know is metabolism if anything. The less active a creature is the longer it tends to live(this is a rule of thumb and absolutely not universal) tortoises and clams are some examples of this trend.
Some are simple; some species have evolved eyes and even actively navigate their environments. They present quite an interesting study in an alternative to a central nervous system.
Couldn't agree more! I came to Clint's channel because I'm going to get a Bearded Dragon as a pet and I heard Clint is a true pro with them. Not only is he a reptile pro...he's just a straight up biology pro and his content is so interesting. Edit: I saw at the time of this comment there are 9 dislikes on this video....who the hell is disliking this? Clint is such a nice and enthusiastic guy...and I find it hard to believe any of this information is incorrect seeing as he went to the jellyfish pros for this video. So the dislikes leave me very confused
Joe Renda I’m with you on this I’m not sure what kind of person wouldn’t like Clint. Also you will love your beardie I just got one last week and they are so awesome.
@@sauronthegreat489 right. I had never had a desire to have reptiles before I started watching a few months ago now I have a Rosy Boa and the beardie already and looking for a python now lol
As a fellow jellies aquarist, this. All of this. There is so much work that goes in to caring for jellies and you need to pay a lot of attention to detail. If the flow is too high or low, or too much debris or algae, it's really easy for the jellies to all get damaged and not recover. Keeping a live brine shrimp hatchery is a project in itself let alone rotifers, or other food options.
Now that you’ve done a radially symmetrical organism and bilaterally symmetrical organisms, you should do hermit crab next, then you’ll have asymmetrical too
@@ericmiles11 I've seen that there are people that have been successfully breeding them in captivity now! You're absolutely right though, all of the ones you see in pet stores are wild caught and there are some disturbing practices that happen especially trying to get them into the painted shells that basically poison them. They really shouldn't be as common as they are... they can live up to (if I remember correctly) 15 years... yet because of wide spread misinformation and bad husbandry the usually only make it a year. I was one of those kids and now that I know better I'm horrified at the thought of what I put mine through. I feel like they get the same treatment as goldfish/bettas do in that they're "easy"... easy doesn't mean getting a pass on researching proper care and giving the animal a good quality of life.
@@ericmiles11 I’d say that’s exactly why he’d want to make a video about them. I have several large hermits I’ve raised since they were tiny but if I could go back I’d have picked a different animal for my kids if I’d have done my research before hand
The best pet cnidarian if you just want a cnidarian, is a colony of mojano anemones. Considered a pest by us reef keepers they are hardy, reproduce readily, colorful, fun to feed, need minimal light, tolerate a wide variety of water conditions. Probably easier and cheaper than a goldfish in a proper set up and you can also keep a fish with them. Perhaps a beautiful, captive bred clown fish.
@@ThunderStruck15 green, blue, red, brown. A lot depends on genetics, lighting and food like most cnidarians. There are some pretty intense discussion about how to get the best color out of our pet cnidarians. Less so about mojano anemones but still applicable to them
if you were to make an aquarium just for majanos, you might as well just get soft corals tbh but i've always wondered if anyone did those anemone jars with majanos
If a moon jelly is out of the question in your actual home, you can go ahead and catch some in animal crossing (ACNH) and display them almost anywhere you want
8:38 She may actually have just solved a childhood mystery of mine! We went to a fish shop once, and they had a tank that had white, translucent "orbs" swimming in it. For years I thought those were baby jellies, until I realised that's not what they look like, so for a couple more years now, I've been wondering what those were. This is the likeliest thing now: Jellies that didn't pulse enough.
I really wanted moon jellyfish when I was a teenager, I'm so glad my mom said no. They seem like a lot of work. Still they are beautiful and mesmerising animals
I was optimistic because moon jellies don't require the expensive lighting that many corals do, but that looks like WAY too much maintenance. Are they the best cnidarian? Not for most people. Try coral or anemones instead.
National Aquarium in Baltimore has/had a touch tank with moon jellies, where visitors can (under the supervision of a staff member), pet the top of a moon jelly. One of the coolest aquarium touch tanks I've ever seen.
I remember that aquarium... Probably my favorite one out of all the aquariums I ever visited. The Australian Lungfish tank with the Toxotes was really cool. They also had a few shingleback skinks, I think.
@@Thames.Chiratt I did touch them, but it's kinda hard to describe what they felt like, especially since it was a number of years ago now. They felt a lot smoother than I expected, smooth and slippery.
Aaaah Elsa seemed nervous but she did great! Jelly fish are my favorite animals on the planet. I just don't have the skills to keep water animals lol so I keep my second favorite, snakes lol
The most difficult thing about jellyfish in general is their amazing issue with corners, or really _any_ obstacle, hard or sharp surface, and currents.
Honestly makes sense to me outside of predators or literally dying no jellyfish in existence even if they had the capacity to understand would probably just go “uhhhhh what” to anything angular.
Moon jellies are very hard to keep. Any slight change in water quality and they're toasted. They also have this tendency to get stuck (we housed em in a small 10 gallon modified circular tank). This was also specifically at an aquarium building that we were propagating 'em at, so had all the equipment. They're so cool tho. Awesome to see Loveland living planet aquarium! Thats my home aquarium!
Wow! This is the first animal I’ve ever seen that was so much work that there’s no way I’d consider having them. This is an animal best served by a large facility like the one in this video. This was a great video, Clint!! I had no idea that anyone bred them and it was fascinating!
Clint: “If you want to simulate the sting, put a little alcohol on your dry skin and enjoy.” I did rub hand sanitizer on very chapped hands earlier today lol. While it was not stinkin rad, comparing it to some more painful jellyfish stings I’ve experienced puts it in perspective 😂
jellyfish are so cool. on one hand they are completely mundane and basic but still so fascinating and interesting, their life cycle is so special and they are also just beautiful to watch. I’d never own them, but I love watching them
Amazing video! I love jellyfish some of my favorite animal’s, but this really made me realize that I won’t ever keep them. Elsa did an amazing job explaining how much care goes into keeping them, without making them actually sound like awful pets. But it is definitely too much work and stress for me to handle, I never realized how much care is actually required for these animals.
This is absolutely fascinating! I fell in love with jellyfish as a kid when I saw them at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The cyclical tanks are so calming to watch. Moon jellies are so magical, and I've even had the pleasure of seeing wild ones in my area. I don't think I'll ever have the patience and budget to care for a salt water tank (and probably not even a freshwater tank), but I've always wanted to know how people could care for them on a small scale. I've also seen it theorized that jellyfish in general could be the one animal that's going to survive and possibly even thrive in the climate changes to the ocean, so I have a lot more respect for them than I originally did.
I knew amphibians were a bit outlandish for a channel called "Clint's Reptiles" but taxonomically speaking we're in uncharted territory, right? This is the fathest we have gone so far? 😁
I love the living planet aquarium!! I remember going there when i was little and they were in a dinky, single level, crowded building 😂 the "new" facility is truly incredible! I would LOVE more behind the scenes videos from there as well as more videos about the animals they have just like this one!!
I used to work at Sea Life for a bit and it was quite a draining and miserable job. So during my lunch breaks I'd always go to the jellyfish tanks to just zone out for a bit and decompress. They're so mesmerizing to watch! Only part of that job I still miss occasionally.
My wife has been waiting for months on a jellyfish video, and it finally happened! YAY! and it happens to be one of her favorites, so I'm sure she'll watch this in a heart beat! Now for a video on Crocodile Geckos and King's Dwarf Monitors!
Just want say I love your content. I’ve watched most of not all of your videos over the past 2 years. Never commented however i wanted to say thanks for the good content & being a good person. Happy trails!
Dude I don’t always watch your videos but I absolutely loved this one. When I buy a house I might get familiar with salt water tanks then work my way up to jelly’s killer video man!
i'm an active jelly keeper and breeder, and i will say that feeding multiple times a day is not exactly necessary. once daily is perfectly adequate, and some species even once every other day. there are some that do need that constant feeding, but not moons. their tank also doesn't necessarily have to be round either, they just need the right flow to keep them from being sucked in or stuck. polyps can also just be blasted with a pipette gently for cleaning. they can also handle more fluctuations than most people think, and in my experience i'd say they're actually easier than coral to keep, and long term less expensive too. of course i'm not saying that the video is wrong not at all, but more i want to give another perspective if anyone reading this is interested in jelly keeping and got a little intimidated! EDIT: if you want more info see if you can contact travis at the jellyfish warehouse, he's very knowledgeable and almost always has moon jellyfish available! he sells many species and also setups and supplies
I scrolled too far for this. I was expecting my jellies to be a second job, but really other than constantly cleaning up the food and dealing with them while cleaning the tank they've been fairly easy to care for.
I've been keeping moon jellies for a few years, and in some ways they're insanely difficult, and in other ways they're easier than you'd think. As long as you're careful about keeping your tank clean (which is a huge pain), they're not too difficult and honestly not too much work, but they're absolutely not a beginner pet.
1:20 I count 8. You can cut the jellyfish into quarters so each quadrant has 1 whole gonad, then you can slice each gonad into left and right halves. Lol but using this logic starfish should have 10 sections so idk
... If I want a Cnidarian, I'll get the ones that stick to rocks instead. Anemones and corals are _so_ much easier to keep, and many are cultivated in the trade. Heck, a lot of people that keep corals will happily just give you some when they need to trim their colonies as they grow.
Clint, can you do a video on wooly caterpillars/wooly bears? I've always loved them and just found out that they turn into Isabella tiger moths. Would love to know how to keep one since their isn't a bunch of info on them.
This was so interesting, jellyfish are amazing creatures. If you want a really interesting aquatic creature, in fact another jellyfish, you should talk about Turritopsis Dohrnii aka the immortal jellyfish. O-O
Thanks for making this. I love your videos that are more science lesson then how to take of this animal that you shouldn't keep as a pet because it's hard to care for. Please more do more hidden science lesson videos!!!
I wasn't considering keeping jellyfish before seeing this video. And now having seen it, I'm still not considering keeping jellyfish. Super interesting though!
I remember when I was holidaying on the west coast of Scotland. We would go out rowing through swarms of moon jellies and could reach out and touch them from the boat.
I think I'll go for the pet front loading close dryer over the pet jelly fish tank since it will probably be cheaper and easier to maintain, but still interesting to learn about how they are kept :-D
I would argue for "tetraradial" over "quadraradial." In chemical nomenclature we use "tetra-" for four (di for 2, tri for 3, penta for 5, etc.). Fantastic, beautifully shot video as always!
it could be either, biradial and bilateral symmetry in animals would be related words that use Latin and not Greek (di) prefixes, while pentaradial is Greek. quadriradial and tetraradial are just not words that people use so it's not standardized
Not sure if he's acting or genuinely excited about moon jellies, but either way it definitely made this video enjoyable. Otherwise, as much as I love jellyfish, he lost me as "high maintenance."
I used to have moon jelly fish. Bought the 300$ kickstarter circular tank back in 2012, and kept them alive for about 6 months. Constantly having to check the water. clean it, put new saline water in, feeding them etc was a PAIN. They were super cool to look at though, and a great conversation piece, but Never again
These are lovely, I live by the Atlantic so I just go see their huge blooms in the wild during the late summer. Unfortunately they tend to beach a lot too.