History and Introduction of the Kamo AquariumGeschichte und Vorstellung des Kamo Aquariums

The Japanese Kamo Aquarium has concentrated since many years in its husbandry and exhibition work on jellyfish. To adapt to the large visitor numbers a perfect new aquarium building was opened in June 2014. As probably the only aquarium in the world the Kamo Aquarium keeps today more than 50 different jellyfish species of all the three jellyfish groups: the Scyphozoa (Fig. 1), Hydrozoa and Cubozoa. The absolute highlight and masterpiece of this aquarium is a large kreisel with a diameter of 5 m for Moon jellyfish. About 2.000 Moon jellies float around freely in the 40 m3 kreisel (Fig. 2). The semicircular room in front of the tank creates the atmosphere of a Jellyfish Dream Dome.But not only the exhibition of the new Kamo Aquarium is extraordinary, also the educational section with a large lecture hall and a special exhibition section for the growth and development of jellyfish is in its size hard to find anywhere else.