Hastings aquarium breeds upside-down jelly fish
Marine experts at Hastings Blue Reef Aquarium are celebrating after successfully rearing a colony of bizarre upside down jelly fish
Found in shallow seas and mangroves, the Cassiopeia jellyfish is unique because, instead of 'swimming' about in the open ocean, it spends its life sitting on the muddy bottoms of inshore bays and ponds.
Upside-down jellyfish are so called because their tentacles and mouth face upwards.
Algae which live in the tissues of the tentacles are thus exposed to sunlight and are able to photosynthesise to produce food, some of which is passed to the jellyfish.
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