Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Hi everyone,

I have always been hearing people feeding their neps with fish food so i myself have a aquarium at home and i have fish food so i was thinking if i can actually use it for my neps??

Here are the ingrediants in each pellet

The name of it is

Micro Pellet,Aquadene

.High quality fishmeal
.yeast
.white germ meal
.soya meal
.corn meal
.wheat flour
.varieties of vitamins and minerals

Compositions
.Crude protein 35%+
.Crude Fat 5%
.Crude Fiber 5%
.Crude Ash 10%
.Moisture 10%

So can i or can i not use this to feed my neps.And if i can use it how much do i put in everytime i feed and how often

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

It can be used. Either one pellet into every open pitcher monthly or one pellet into every half-brown pitcher biweekly.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Hi Cindy,

So its 1 pellet for each pitcher the plant has every month???
Thanks for the info Cindy

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Ken,

Feeding fish pellets is safe because the pitchers will just absorb what they need. Excess will be left behind and you'll throw it out when you cut away the pitchers when they turn all brown.

A monthly interval gives the plant some rest inbetween. Also, you would get about a new leaf a month if your plant is already growing vigorously. The growth spurt (if any) would be visible within that time frame.

Do remember that light level needs to be good when the plant is being fed. Otherwise, you are wasting your fish pellets. ;)

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Hi Cindy

My fish pellets are probally just 1 mm in size

Anyway wats a growth spurt???And my plant definitly receives a good amounth of sunlight

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Growth spurt put simply is your plants suddenly growing faster. :smile:

If your pellet is only 1mm across, you can put around 5 in each pitcher which is at least 3" and above. Put less in smaller pitchers to prevent rotting of nice pitchers.

I would usually feed only the half-brown pitchers. Even if they are overloaded and turn brown at the base, I can simply just cut them off.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Can every kinda food-pellets can be used to feed neps?
Good point thread Ken!

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

What about other CPs?

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Hi Ali

Well i guess so.....unless there are stuff which are not normally in normal fish food.

Hi Marvin

Well to me nepenthes are the most hardy among all the species of CPs for exmaple they can also take tap water which most CPs can't take.If i were you i better try it on nepenthes first since i've never tried on other CPs so i can't help much.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

So it is ok to feed fish pellets to neps. That's great since I have nothing else to feed them with.

Over feeding only hurts the pitcher right? Just want to know in case something goes wrong.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Hi Marigold

Yeah my plants did actually had a little growth spurt but not much so far the pitchers still developing not yet getting to giant size yet will tell how big they get hahahah.

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Well I just threw some into my plants' pitchers. I'll wait and see if there's any increase of growth.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Unfortunatly the pellets molded pretty easily. It does look like it's given them a bit of a boost though.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Well same as mine

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Do remember that fertilising, whether into the pitchers or onto the plants, require bright light to good effect. So always fertilise during the sunny season when the plant can utilise the excess nutrients given. :smile:

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Hi

My balcony definitly recives more light then ever nowadays.....................Somethings somehow happened to my neps which is miranda recently.....A couple of pitchers dried up which i suspect because of the pellets......BUT!.......The newer pitchers are always bigger.......So i'm not sure if its just the plant loosing its pitchers cos its old or anything...

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

If you feed it too much then the pitcher will dry up Ken.My plants are almost tripling in size an d still getting bigger.;)

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Well, my suggestion is have around 2 plants of the same species to make a comparison.1 plant with food given and another plant find food for its own.From this we can be sure the providing food for neps really helps or not.Why im saying this is because its normal for the next pitcher to be bigger then previous pitcher.

From my experiance if the pitcher not given any food,it will last a very long time.Empty pitcher can last very long time.If i give it food,the pitcher wont last as long.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Hi Ali

Yep agreed with you..........Those pitchers that i fed were not that old maybe a couple of months to a year............I guess what i thought will nvr happen came true which is overfeeding my neps while they are already getting all they're nutrients from a whole colony/swarm of ants...

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Tip: Always feed the oldest or half-brown pitchers. ;)

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Is it bad to feed newly open pitchers?

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Well i don't think so Ali.......Probally all the pitchers are fine.Like Cindy said its better to feed the older or half dying pitchers..Not sure why but from what i see is that even though you overfed or anything and the pitchwer will die but since its already drying up it will die anyways.

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Spot on, Ken. :1thumbup: If you feed old pitchers, when the fish pellet rots you can just cut them away. Oh, when I say old pitchers I mean the ones which are starting to turn brown or half brown....not the ones which are completely dead.

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SIDE-TRACK QUESTION:

I killed a bee last nite and i stuff it into one adult pitcher, is it safe? Sometime I also kill some mosquito that attack on me & I feed them to the pitchers too.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Its safe. I feed my neps mosquitoes sometimes too.

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Well i don't feed but yeah its fine...

Ken

Re: Fish Pellets for my neps
 

Bees don't sting neps, they sometime chew through it. Don't worry it is good. Any insects will do.

Cheers