Fresh water jellyfish ??

[wardric]

Did it look anything like these? http://www.clr.pdx.edu/news/jellyfish.html

Those are the same I saw also. We should form an "I want to believe" club:05: We are not alone anymore:10:

Thanks for the link. We kept some in a recipient for some time. We "fed" them with fish food. They grabbed the bits but died anyway after a couple of days.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Get em all the time in Mt. Storm. Largest ones about the size of a nickel. Most about the size of my thumbnail. Cool little buggers.

 

[Tom Smedley]

The Fresh Water Jellyfish or Craspedacusta sowerbyi is actually a hydrozoan. We have seen them rarely on Lake Martin dives in Central Alabama. Absoutely wonderful creatures.

 

[olddiver2]

Now I recall that there is a dive site somewhere in the Pacific where you do a saltwater dive, then they take you to a freshwater lake in an atoll where you can dive with ***sure enough*** fresh water jellyfish.

I'll be there aren't many people who have seen them.

I just did a Google search and read about the sea walnuts we swam with at Lauderdale by the Sea. Scuba-Jenny identified them for me.

A good description is diaphanus. Try to touch them and nothing is there. They are cool, too!

 

[knotical]

Now I recall that there is a dive site somewhere in the Pacific where you do a saltwater dive, then they take you to a freshwater lake in an atoll where you can dive with ***sure enough*** fresh water jellyfish.

I'll be there aren't many people who have seen them.

I just did a Google search and read about the sea walnuts we swam with at Lauderdale by the Sea. Scuba-Jenny identified them for me.

A good description is diaphanus. Try to touch them and nothing is there. They are cool, too!

If you're talking about Palau, it's a landlocked saltwater lake.
http://www.pbs.org/edens/palau/p_sea_b_8.htm

 

[wardric]

yep, you're right. Saw that in Survivor Palau. But they were huge jellyfish, nothing to compare with what I saw in our cold lakes.