Spotted: Jellyfish in Welland Scuba Park

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Dr Dog

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I was out in the old canal today, enjoying a 30' foot dive, when bot my buddy and I seemed to see it at the same time, two kind of see through "somethings" that seemed to be defying the flow of the canal. ( I cant call it a current, but the water in the canal is moving north). As we got closer, the figure was unmistakable, two juvenile white colored Jellyfish.

These were not big at all, but it was super cool to see something other than Gobys and Bass .

I did get confirmation from a couple instructors that were hanging about, that they had seen them too, and one claimed they could easily be from an aquarium that someone had dumped some fish. I find that story kind of fishy, and suspect some eggs caught a ride on someone who was down south, and with our really warm waters this year ( scuba park water temp was 87 at surface and 80 and 30 feet)

Anyways, keep an eye out, you may see them, I saw them between the tug and the swing bridge
 
btw how was the viz?
 
Hey scuba noob, this is freshwater, well at least not salt water

T4e it was about 10 feet at best, but there was a class right before we got in the water, and a bunch of random divers, so it could have been stirred up sediment.

The sunken tug was lively with fish though
 
thanks Dr. Dog, we plan on getting out there soon
 
I was shown two jellyfish today at the Swing Bridge site of the Welland Scuba Park. Quite interesting to see and these were much bigger than those I've seen previously.

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http://www.freshwaterjellyfish.org/canada.html#BC
Just spotted this in another thread on this site. Good information about Freshwater Jellyfish.
 
Very cool, I thought it was neat, would be nice to see something other than algae and zebra mussels
 
So I got back out today to try and take a few photos of these neat little critters. Here's a cropped image of one that didn't turn out too bad. At Swing Bridge. IMG_3019-FWJelly 1.jpg
 
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