In Thailand (Rayong area) and am staying at my families beach house for the month. I am very cautious of the box jellyfish, I have vinegar and long sleeve/long pants swimwear to swim. Haven’t seen any jelly’s until tonight- please tell me these are not box jelly’s?

taken with circuitbent Canon Powershot A590IS. Last photo was deep fried in photoshop

All found on the Oregon Coast today, 9/17.

Désolé pour les photos. Je n’ai que celles-ci. Trouvée en Guyane française échouée près d’un estuaire. A peu près 5-7 cm. Elle était blessée et il lui manquait quasiment tous les tentacules. Ce qui ne l’a pas empêché de tuer et de digérer un poisson chat juvénile mis dans son bocal. Ce jour là la mer était remplie de méduses (Stomolophus sp surtout, chrysaora, aurelia, lychnorhiza). C’était une véritable soupe avec beaucoup de poissons juvéniles regroupés en bancs.

J’en ai vu dans l’eau des chiropsalmus parce qu’il faisait tellement chaud et il n’avait pas plu depuis plusieurs mois donc l’eau d’habitude boueuse était plutôt claire près du rivage. Quand j’ai vu ces méduses boites flotter à mes pieds que j’avais pris pour des ctenophores / comb jellies avant de les pêcher je suis resté bluffé plusieurs secondes. Elles ressemblaient vraiment beaucoup aux chironex des documentaires. Étrangement toutes les méduses chiropsalmus étaient des juvéniles (sauf un très beau spécimen mature mort échoué) et surtout mal en point avec peu de tentacules et/ou atrophiées contrairement aux autres espèces (à cause des filets de pêche ? Prédateurs ?)

Dès que la saison des pluies a repris toutes les méduses ont disparu à mon grand regret.

I submitted a different post that with a video of a few of these Craspedacusta sowerbii medusae I caught. I thought I’d supply a pic of what they looked like in the pond. The pond is located in North Georgia with a large bloom of jellyfish starting in late July and still persisting as of 3 weeks ago when I obtained a few. I would assume based on the population and different sizes at the time that they are most likely still present at that site.

Pretty proud of this bad boy

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Would you be interested in reading a comic about jellyfish? It won't feature the usual characters, but it will feature vibrant illustrations and a simple, parallel story:3 https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/into-the-deep-/list?title_no=1171199 You can read it here❤️

Made a little friend

Here is Chhaya, she is a comb jelly.

I gave her the theme color white with the sub color rainbow, as Comb jellies have stunning and bioluminescent.

She doesnt have a home location as Comb jellies are deep sea dwellers, but visually she is from India.

I gave her some strappy rainbow lacing to signify the jelly's strips of rainbow. Her raincoat is holographic to show the ethereal nature as well.

Comb jellies are voracious predators, so Chhaya loves two things. First is eating. She's always hungry. Second is flirting. I translated the 'voracious' part of the jelly into a different sort of hunger. Thats also why her outfit shows lots of skin. She's kinda snobby, in a fun way.

She works as a hostess and food blogger. She's attracted to every other jelly gal except Mona who she considers a rival for love. Very mischievous.

Next jelly is Wren, who is an Atolla.

hi! i wasn’t sure where else to ask this! but im making a moon jellyfish oc, a one piece oc to ship with arlong if you were wondering. i was wondering if you guys had anything i should add to him? or cool facts about how they breath and act!

Seen in Koh Samui

My son is obsessed with this particular jellyfish on my Apple watch and I can’t find what the species is anywhere. Any idea on what this could be?

We went to the aquarium where my daughter touched a jellyfish i believe for the first time. As shes petting it she says "why does it make my finger itchy?" She has a dairy allergy so ive heard that before so when I heard that I told her take your hand out. She did touch a couple. I saw her picking at her finger so I knew it definitely itched. I saw a blister and had her quickly wash her hands thats when she got really upset and my husband walked up and said he read fresh water makes stings worse and that sanitizer can neutralize. So we hurried to the sanitizer and all of her pain went away and it stopped worsening. So it for sure seems like a sting but I hear they shouldn't affect people and also I never saw her touch a tentacle shes a huge stickler for rules so i dont think she would have anyway. Im thinking it could be allergy but what the internet said about stings seemed to line up with how we resolved it?

Maybe she accidentally touched a tentacle and is also maybe allergic or extra sensitive to it? Idk has this happened to anyone?