What do jellyfish eat in Jellyfish Lake?
What do jellyfish eat in Jellyfish Lake? The golden jellyfish is closely related to the spotted jellyfish found in local lagoons, however, they have lost their spots and almost all of their appendages. They obtain a large part of their nutrition from symbiotic algae that live in their tissues, and also from capturing zooplankton in the water column.
Is it safe to swim in Jellyfish Lake?
Though swimming is permitted, scuba diving is highly prohibited as the bottom layer of the lake hosts a poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas that even the lake's jellyfish don't swim near.
Why you should not dive to the bottom of Jellyfish Lake?
No scuba diving allowed. If the two layers of the lake ever were to mix, the entire ecosystem of the lake could be affected. Besides the fact that exhaust bubbles could harm the jellyfish, the deeper anoxic layer of the lake contains hydrogen sulfide, which is poisonous to humans.
Why do the jellyfish in Jellyfish Lake not sting?
Contrary to tourist myth, the jellyfish are not “non-stinging”; rather, the lack of natural predators in this marine lake (inside an island, inside an ocean) has led them to evolve away from having very strong stinging cells, so that most of us can glide through the water, bumping into the floating, dancing clear blobs ...