Feeding Drosera Fish Food

Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22500

By watnazn -  Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:28 pm
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- Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:28 pm #22500

Here are a few pics of my plants enjoying some fish food flakes. They eat it quickly but I don't know the affect of the fish food yet and I will update. I got the idea from reading that others feed the flakes to nepenthes, but I doubt I am the first.

Let me know what you think, and what do you guys feed your drosera?

Thanks for reading

-Kyle

Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22511

By Matt -  Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:18 pm
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- Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:18 pm #22511

Cool idea. Thanks for sharing!

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Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22515

By hackerberry -  Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:56 pm
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- Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:56 pm #22515

I also learned that from another member of a different forum. He uses fish pellets.

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Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22527

By watnazn -  Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:19 pm
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- Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:19 pm #22527

Cool, I use the pellets for the pygmies I have. What type is the plant in the first pic? The curl3 pic.

-Kyle

Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22530

By hackerberry -  Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:36 pm
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- Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:36 pm #22530

The first and third are D. Regias.

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Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22533

By lemonlily -  Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:49 pm
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- Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:49 pm #22533

Is it actually okay to do so? I have both pellets and flakes. Yay! Keep in mind that they don't need to be fed as long as they've got sunlight though. I think it's probably the best for them to have insects but if they really need the extra nutrition, go for it! The fish food won't rot, so if you're having problems with the bugs rotting, and if the fish food is okay, that would be a choice.

I have not yet answered my own question. So is fish food okay for carnivorous plants?

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Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22535

By Esly -  Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:58 pm
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- Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:58 pm #22535

Thats cool!

So its safe to feed sundews fish food??

Hehe. I like food.

Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22546

By watnazn -  Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:41 pm
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- Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:41 pm #22546

lemonlily wrote:Is it actually okay to do so? I have both pellets and flakes. Yay! Keep in mind that they don't need to be fed as long as they've got sunlight though. I think it's probably the best for them to have insects but if they really need the extra nutrition, go for it! The fish food won't rot, so if you're having problems with the bugs rotting, and if the fish food is okay, that would be a choice.

I have not yet answered my own question. So is fish food okay for carnivorous plants?

I would say its fine but I have only used it for drosera and nepenthes. I would hold back on vft and maybe sarrs. It would probably work for sarrs though. And for sundews, feeding them actually helps a bunch and the leaves come out larger and faster after being fed. When I didn't feed them in the terrarium they would take forever to get large.

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Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22667

By lemonlily -  Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:32 am
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- Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:32 am #22667

Okay, thanks a lot. I wanna feed plants now...

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Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22690

By Caleboy 123 -  Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:33 pm
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- Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:33 pm #22690

Cool idea, it's a bit easier than having to catch a bug by the antenna.

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Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22748

By kevinqwe -  Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:35 pm
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- Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:35 pm #22748

oh!! that looks so cool

Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22821

By Adam -  Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:44 am
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- Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:44 am #22821

we need an experiment to see what difference this makes in the growth rate...

Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22837

By Matt -  Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:14 am
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- Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:14 am #22837

Adam wrote:we need an experiment to see what difference this makes in the growth rate...

I was thinking the same thing Adam.

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Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22861

By watnazn -  Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:50 am
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- Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:50 am #22861

Yeah, I fed them to a lot of my plants. But when I get seeds from you adam, and If they germinate. I will put two in a pot and feed one fish food and leave the other. Sound good?

-Kyle

Re: Feeding Drosera Fish Food#22866

By Adam -  Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:55 am
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- Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:55 am #22866

I'm going to try the same.

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