Flower Hat Jellyfish

This striking and rare jelly has brilliant, multicolored tentacles trailing from a translucent, pinstriped bell. It also has tentacles around the rim of its bell that it can quickly coil and uncoil. This mysterious jelly is semi-benthic, sometimes spending its time on the seafloor. Blooms of the flower hat jellies make swimming in waters off Argentina hazardous. The sting of this jelly is painful, leaving a bright rash.

This animal was originally part of a pack known as the Jellyfish Pack. The Jellyfish Pack was done at ZooAdmin and each jellyfish is skinned by a different member of that site. These animals will not reproduce and do not require any food/enrichment, acting like ambients. But, guests will still view and enjoy them.

This particular jelly’s skin was contributed by ShenTirag. It includes a gift for guests to purchase.

Known Issues:

• Although the jellyfish don’t need to be fed, they do eat through a unique behavior of sifting the water for food. Sometimes they don’t perform certain need-fulfilling behaviors like sifting when they should, which will lead to that need being unfulfilled. This is temporary and resolves itself on its own without the need for player intervention.

Other downloads in the ‘Jellyfish Pack’ set:

• Yellow Jellyfish
• Purple-Striped Jellyfish
• Lion’s Mane Jellyfish
• Granrojo
• Flower Hat Jellyfish
• Australian Spotted Jellyfish
• Deepwater Trachymedusa
• Mauve Stinger
• Cannonball Jellyfish
• Fried Egg Jellyfish
• Cross Jellyfish

Special thanks to NanoLancensis for recovering this download for ZooBerry!