TMC Kreisel 10 Jellyfish Tank

Tropical Marine Centre has released two new nano tanks designed to enable anyone to keep Jellyfish at home. Usually restricted to public aquarium displays, Jellyfish are easy to keep apart from their need for specially-shaped aquariums free of bubbles and lacking the angular corners, flat walls, and filter inlets that pelagic species can get stuck to and damaged by.

The solution to this is a Kreisel – from the German for Merry Go Round or Spinning Top – a circular aquarium free of obstructions that keeps the jellies in constant suspension while still filtering the water at the same time. Now TMC has launched two mini Kreisel aquariums that are specialized enough to house jellies at a size and price point that everyone can accommodate. And that could have some positive implications for the aquarium hobby as a whole.

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The new Kreisel aquariums are small by saltwater aquarium standards, holding just 10 liters/2.64 gallons and 15 liters/3.96 gallons respectively, with footprints of just 35x12cm/13.8”x4.7” and 41x14cm/16”x5.5”. They’re actually small by Kreisel standards too, but we need to trust Europe’s largest livestock supplier as they’ve been working with the world’s public aquariums for 53 years, and when it comes to Jellyfish, and the experts they supply, this isn’t their first rodeo. They recommend the two tanks as being suitable to house Moon, Cannonball, Marble, and Spotted jellyfish species.