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June 15, 2004
I Like Jellies
We took our houseguests down to the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Sunday, and I took a bunch of pictures, mostly of jellyfish. Here are some of them; the rest are on Life Through a Viewfinder.
Posted by ayse on 06/15/04 at 3:44 PM
The orange and blue are super cool!
Oddly enough, I was watching jellyfish, sharks, and sardines during part of this weekend at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point. The sardine tank was great!
If you want to know what the back of the jellyfish tanks look like, go to
http://www.katisha.com/Images/jellyhome.jpg
The water has to constantly move in the tanks and there cannot be corners, else the jellies settle in the corner and form a slurry of inanimate goo. They are dumber than shower curtain mold.
I remember those pictures from when you came back from that trip. Now there are a bunch of places where you can see behind the tanks, even as just a regular visitor.
Isn't it that they're just not very good at steering, rather than dumb?
They can kind of steer, but their "dumbth" is transcendent. The guy who showed me around the place is good friends with the Jelly Lab gang and the consensus is that there's not a lot going on with the jellyfish mentally. If they don't have a current to swim against, they just settle into corners and disintegrate.