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Each pellet is about 1.5mm diameter. The ones the adelae plantlet is eating are crushed bits of a betta pellet.

I did feed some pellets to the capensis, but I thought the shot with the crickets might be a little more interesting.

This is very cool. Do you think crushed pellets would have the plants absorb the nutrients better? Too bad I don't have a sundew on hand, but it seems like fun. I want to get a cape sundew.

I have some fish food stuff on hand though. Small pellets, which I don't know what type of fish it's for. Koi pellets, big pellets my fishies love. And some flakes, for uhh... What's that thing called? Oh yeah, those tropical fish food stuff, or something like that.

Can this be used on fly traps? Well, not now, because my plants are not even "hungry" yet. But I'd like to try feeding traps fish food.

Let us (more like me, actually) know how the experiment goes!

Cool photos Veronis! I really like the quality of the macro shots you can get with your new camera. For a point and shoot camera, it's incredible!

FYI, I think you might have a couple of the photos mislabeled. I'm not sure what that baby sundew is in the third photo down, but it's not the D. dielsiana that I sent you (unless it was one of the bonus plants). And the one beneath that one you have labeled as D. adelae and that looks like one of the D. dielsiana plants that I sent you.

awesome pics dude! have you ever notice that teh Drosera madagascariensis (Botswana) wraps around prey really fast , well faster then my D.capensis

lemonlily wrote:This is very cool. Do you think crushed pellets would have the plants absorb the nutrients better?

The pellets I have are already really small so crushing them isn't necessary - the sundews will digest them entirely in 1-2 weeks (so less mess than insects too); betta pellets soften in water AND in sundew saliva . A lot of people use these tiny betta pellets on their sundews and they're said to be better than bugs due to all the nutrients packed into them - people get awesome results feeding sundew betta pellets (actually, some people feed their Neps and flytraps betta pellets too...for flytraps you have to moisten them in distilled water to soften them prior to feeding - tweezers required).

I use this stuff - PetSmart carries it, and I imagine any major pet or fish store probably does; it cost me $2.99 and will probably last me a year or more: You can also use fish flakes. I've never heard anyone saying to stay away from certain brands. The ones whose first ingredient is wheat flour or anything other than "fish meal" are generally lower quality.

Read this thread, too - a lot of great insight on feeding CP's in there - http://www.terraforums.com/forums/showt ... p?t=117265

Matt wrote:FYI, I think you might have a couple of the photos mislabeled.

Oops, I did - I just fixed them. I had the adelae labeled dielsiana, and the dielsiana labeled adelae.

What's FYI?

Eh heh heh heh heh... I got distracted by the pictures in that thread. I'm still deciding what sundew to get in the spring.

Looking at your pictures, I think maybe my "who-know's-what-that-is" fish food could have been betta pellets. They're a bit old, but they still smell fishy. Yum? Too bad I'm interested in the topic now, while the plants are about to go "dead." I'll try some experimenting next spring.

FYI = For Your Information

Haha that's funny. "For your information, you labled your plants wrong." LOLLOLOLOLLLOLOL.

lemonlily wrote:Haha that's funny. "For your information, you labled your plants wrong." LOLLOLOLOLLLOLOL.

The filenames are numbers and I forgot which numbers were which plants.

Veronis wrote:The filenames are numbers and I forgot which numbers were which plants.

I figured that's what happened. It's very easy to do when posting photos.

Sorry, I laugh at things that aren't funny at all. Actaully I don't even laugh, "LOLOLOLOL" is fun to say and type. Best of both worlds.

looks pretty cool

Hmm, I like this idea. I just built a terrarium for my tropicals so this would be a good way to give them a good meal in their home.

Lawndude84 wrote:Hmm, I like this idea. I just built a terrarium for my tropicals so this would be a good way to give them a good meal in their home.

Besides that, bug carcasses in a terrarium really stink up the place.

Really? I didn't know those bugs would stink up a terrarium!