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There's this weird green coating over the top of the soil in 2 of my 3 VFT seedling pots. I repotted the seedlings maybe a month ago About 5 days after I received them in the mail. Currently everything is sitting in a bright Southwesterly window, soil kept moist.
The seedlings seem unaffected by the green slime, putting out as big traps as ever. The soil is the 5:3:2 mix of peat-perlite-silica mix I got from the Flytrapstore. Whatever stuff it is, it stains the silica and perlite greenish. Weirdly the original container's soil that I saved after repotting is completely devoid of the green stuff. But the plants in it do not seem to be as large-trapped as the ones in the greening peat-perlite-silica mix.
Is it algae? or fungus? I've only watered with distilled and rain water...I've scraped off the greened parts to reveal perfectly fine soil underneath, but after a few days, that just starts getting green too Help?

they would hate to be dried out.. hint hint.. put a fan on them. That should make it really hard for algae to grow. Don't dry them out by putting the light too close to them. Dry them out by air movement, not heat.

Hi Kittyklaws,
I had the same green stuff form on my potted traps after I put them in the green house last November. It does look like algae, but it might even be a photosynthetic bacteria. The winters here in the SF Bay area are mild, so I decided to move the plants back out of the green house. Since then the rain has washed the peat clean and, in the fresh air, the green stuff hasn't returned. It seems that the warm, still air in the green house was a perfect climate for what ever it was that was growing. My Venus flytraps are doing well outside. If you have to keep your plants indoors, then Adam's suggestion of a fan might be a good idea

Yes, I've got green slime in one of my pots in my enclosed porch, which is their winter home. I've never seen it when they're outside, though, so I suspect that whatever it is, it can't deal with much of a breeze drying out the top of the soil. It doesn't seem to be hurting the VFTs either, so I'll probably just leave it and see what happens.