

Using my extensive experience in building aquariums as part of my research projects at Duke and the University of Delaware, I developed a tank with a special water flow to keep jellies suspended in the middle of the tank. Jellyfish can’t live in a regular aquarium because they get sucked into the filtration pumps and liquefied. Convert a regular aquarium into a jellyfish habitat. Soon, I decided to design and build an aquarium that could keep jellyfish alive and well. As it pulsed steadily and allowed its tentacles to flutter behind it, I was completely hypnotized. It wasn’t until years later when I collected a small jellyfish at the beach and observed it in an aquarium that I realized how stunningly beautiful they are. The thought of a slimy translucent blob just below the water’s surface that could deliver a painful sting kept me out of the ocean most of the summer. I was always terrified of jellyfish as a kid.

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