Sunset Marine Labs, LLC has been serving the public aquarium, zoo, and professional arena since 1996. Established as the first commercial jellyfish husbandry lab in the world, we are excited to now be supplying the hobbyist market! Providing you with 25+ years of expertise in jellyfish breeding, tank design, manufacturing and successful care and maintenance of your jellies and jellyfish system, no matter the size or scope.

25 years ago, we started commercially growing jellyfish for the zoo and aquarium industry across the United States. Back then, only a handful of public aquariums were exhibiting jellyfish, led by Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cabrillo Aquarium, National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD, and New England Aquarium. Monterey Bay Aquarium first introduced visitors to the beauty of jellies with “Planet of the Jellies,” a special exhibition that ran from March 1992 to September 1993. It remains one of the most popular in aquarium history.

Jellyfish kreisel tank design innovations and new husbandry techniques were developed for that exciting new exhibit; however, mainstream jellyfish husbandry was still off in the distance for most zoos & aquariums. How could they begin to share the experience of jellyfish with their patrons? This is when we stepped in & began supplying live jellyfish, custom jellyfish tank displays, as well as frozen jellyfish food to public aquariums across the nation. 

We supply jellyfish and/or jellyfish tanks to Indianapolis Zoo, Tennessee Aquarium, Georgia Aquarium, Memphis Zoo, and Sea World, just to name a few. We have also assisted many professional aquarium service companies across the U.S. by designing and building high-end jellyfish installations at their request, educating them on the ins and outs of jellykeeping, stocking those systems with animals & food and continuing support throughout. Our customer base is wide—and we are ready to make it even wider by welcoming you, the hobbyist, into the fold!

Developing the EON Tank

There were many hurdles to overcome before responsibly offering jellyfish to the hobbyist market. Three major factors had to be achieved before we felt confident in offering a jellyfish system to the hobbyist.

First, create a supply of animals that can survive at room temperature. Relying on collected animals for supply is not the way to go as Mother nature will not always have the size and species you need and there can be long periods where no animals are available. Jellies are seasonal and they go with the currents---this means hit-and-miss for wild caught animals. Because we were breeding for the professional arena, we were breeding coldwater moon jellyfish and that system requires a chilling unit to maintain the water temperature between 63º- 65ºF. Chilling units are not cheap and we needed to create a population of tank-raised jellies that could live in room temperature water so the overall cost of the system could be kept to a minimum. We’ve done just that!

Second, we had to shrink down our most popular jellyfish tank design, the Tumbler Tank, to a manageable and cost effective size for the hobbyist—and it needed to be turn key and easy to maintain. We’ve done just that!

Finally, the third hurdle was creating a nutritional and easy to feed jellyfish food that the jellies would thrive on. We actually achieved this hurdle 13 years ago, grow it daily in house and ship it worldwide! 

So, to the new jellykeepers of the world we say welcome!  We are here to assist you in becoming successful jelly aquarists! We have the proper jellyfish system, the jellyfish and jellyfish food you need.  We use the eon jellyfish system to breed our jellies and know you will be happy with it's design and capabilities! We absolutely love it! We wouldn’t put it on the market otherwise!