QUESTIONS

[marvin1997]

Do I need to remove those dead bodies from my VFT?
it looks like insect graveyard...

[plantlover]

Depends on where you keep them. I keep them outside so the bodies are swept by the rain and wind. If you keep them indoors in a terrarium, you may have to remove them manually.

[arvin555]

I sometimes try to blow them off. But I found manually removing them often will trigger the trap to close again. If you will be removing, use tweezers I guess. Have fun giving your VFT a dental cleaning

TTFN
Arvin

[marvin1997]

Can anyone help me??

I think i got algae in my spaghum soil........maybe
they are green coloured....

[plantlover]

This I don't know. Mine also have algae but it don't seems to bother my CP so I leave them alone. Got one time my sphagnum turn into blue and another into red.(So colourful)

[kentosaurs]

Hi

Wah Aaron moss turn blue and red ah..looks good and scary since it didn't affect the plant it should be fine.I just leave the dead carcasses of the insects my VFT killed/eaten..Of topic my chili seeds in a normal potting soil mix one part is blue dunno wat happen....And also my VFT has came back to live and growing in full direct sunlight,hope the reddish colour will appear soon.Mine has no red colour in its trap how long it takes if my VFT gets minimum 3 hours of direct sunlight everyday to get the reddish colouration on its trap???And does the reddish colour only appear on new traps or all the traps????????

Ken

Originally Posted by arvin555

I sometimes try to blow them off. But I found manually removing them often will trigger the trap to close again. If you will be removing, use tweezers I guess. Have fun giving your VFT a dental cleaning

TTFN
Arvin

ive had that experience too..

well, if i see dead flies on traps i just leave them there. they somehow dissapear or slowly slip off the plant?

perhaps some birds come and eat it.. lol

[arvin555]

I have no idea how long it takes for VFT to have reddish color when exposed to sunlight, but my almost 1 month old regular VFTs still doesn't show red, but some others like big vigorous variety is showing red color already. Just be patient, I even have 3 month old VFT that still doesn't show red on traps.

As for water tray, occassionally either let it dry for 1 day then fill up or what I do is dump old water on tray then after that water the plant so extra water is collected on the tray. Now though rainy season so I just dump the water, next day already full again.

If you visit your plants everyday, you can dump water every 3 days, and mosquitos will not breed in them. The problem is if you have many many water trays to do this.

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Arvin

[kentosaurs]

Ok i have no problem with every 3 days.

3 months is a long long time oh well i'll just be patient and time will pass by and results will come out..at least i hope it will show some results.

Ken

[Varhoon Vystra]

Depends where U keep them just like whay plantlover said.