Any Carnivorous Plant Keepers???

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I used to when i was 12

I had a 20 long i think for plants

kept venus fly traps butterworts, sundews, sarracenia and quite a few others

Though i dont remember the others

But i had them for a year, then just got busy with random sports

So they died :/
 
i luv pitcher plants.

they can eat some sweet things. what do yall feed yrs??
 
No pitcher plants here, but i do feed my VFT's FD Bloodworms which have been soaked in Distilled Water...
 
My pitcher hasn't opened yet, but the new leaf is growing pretty fast. I think it's a purple pitcher.

When I can, I keep the plants outside and let them catch their own food. Otherwise I go hunting for their food in the garden. Here's what I've found to be the easiest for them to digest;
-slugs
-crickets
-grasshoppers
-ants
-flies
-spiders
The giant trap varieties are the easiest to feed, since they can handle much larger insects.
 
I have problem finding them "live food" since i live in a building with no garden per se... i tried buying baby crickets for them once, but the problem there is only feeding them once a month i had way too many crickets left over and they ended up stuck to the jar for lack of a better word...

But i have to say, FD bloodworms rehydrated works for me so far, so i'm going to stick with that route for now... although i have been tempted to try using FD Meal Worms... although not sure how well that will work...
 
Just picked up a lance-leaf sundew today! I've also started culturing flightless fruit flies to feed them. Much easier than catching tiny bugs for the new pitcher plant leaves.
 
Hey, theres a group for carnivorus plants:
"Carnivorus Plants, Orchids, and Bromeliads"
Use the drop-down arrow on Community (near the top of the page), click on the arrow, click social groups. To the right there will be that ^ group, click on it, scroll down to near the bottom, click join group, and then post your pics and info and stuff.
 
the_deeb;4490755; said:
I'm hoping to ultimately have some sort of pitcher plant in my paludarium. I need to find a relatively small species that will do well growing as an epiphyte. Any suggestions?
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I don't think there are any epiphytical pitchers, but the Nepenthes genus typically roots themselves in the soil below a tree and climb it. They get pretty big though, some large enough to digest rats.

It appears that Nepenthes dubia will grow as an epiphyte, and the smallest of the genus is N. argentii.

Personally, I'd recommend the purple pitcher. It's a marsh rooted plant, stays fairly small, and develops a really pretty coloration in the leaves.
 
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