Design with Purpose, Wonder with Style
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Some moments are so beautiful they stop time. A child’s first jellyfish encounter is one of them — and it doesn’t have to end at the aquarium.
Our luxury jellyfish aquariums are designed to be the crown jewel of any space — and sell them twice the size, half the price of competitors’ smaller models! But for every high-end system we sell, we’re donating classroom-sized tanks to schools across the USA, complete with those 100% free downloadable science lessons…no sign-ups, no spam, no tentacles attached.
It all started on Kickstarter. I was looking into getting a large-scale tank for my living room. I went down the usual rabbit hole—big reef tanks, maintenance, costs… and the reality that almost everyone has seen one.
Don’t get me wrong, reef tanks can be beautiful. But they take a ton of work, a ton of money, and in the end… it’s still just another reef tank. Been there, done that. I wanted something MORE.
Then one day I saw a jellyfish tank on Kickstarter—and like a kid at an aquarium gift shop, I fell in love. Jellyfish! How many people do you know that have jellyfish at home? Exactly. None that I knew either.
Honestly, I didn’t even realize you could keep them at home. I always thought jellyfish were reserved for the big commercial aquariums—the kind where you press your nose against the glass and say “whoa.”
The Kickstarter tank was cool, sure… but I wanted something bigger. A real centerpiece. Something that would stop people mid-conversation and make them say, “Wait… are those jellyfish?”
So I started looking online for larger jellyfish tanks—and the prices were… let’s just say they were enough to make my wallet clam up. There was basically one company selling tanks in that size range, and the cost felt a little… fishy.
That’s when it hit me: why not design my own? The goal was simple—build something twice the size, half the price, and still make it sustainable as a business. If I could pull that off… well, that would be pretty rad.
So I rolled up my sleeves, dove in, and started designing. And that’s how Bad Squishy was born. 🪼
This is our flagship model. Designed to be the centerpiece of any living room, a cross between living art and luxury high end decor making it perfect for business office, restaurant, or home.
Bad Squishy measures 4 ft 6.3 inches long, 2 feet tall and 1 ft 1 inch deep. Both sides have energy efficient color changing LED lighting with plenty of custom settings to play with, much like the lighting strips at Home Depot that come with remote, but much brighter, and every color setting you could imagine. Watching the moon jellies in the deep blue light at night with some music going, is literally yoga for the brain, and food for the soul.
The water filter media located on both sides of the aquarium and are connected underneath the tank to prevent one side overflowing onto the carpet or uneven water levels.
We “bowed” the bottom. Although if you look at the middle of the aquarium it appears flat. This is an optical illusion we took advantage of and we were able to solve and fix a problem that another tank similar had. If you look inside Bad Squishy on either side where the LED lights are located you’ll be able to see it.
This was a win/win because it also pushes the water flow and jellyfish against the acrylic glass making for a much better viewing of your jellies.
Jellyfish care is a lot more simple than you’d expect from such an amazing & unique sea creature. In fact simple water changes and feeding them daily is the biggest part of it. We hope to be able to supply healthy jellyfish with our new aquaculture facility granted we hit our goal in crowdfunding!
With the new aquaculture, we should have our jellyfish prices at about $25-$35 each, and of course 100% free for our squishy schools and educators!
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