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I love botany amd indeed my mother has many, but I never really understood her passion until one day at a local grocery store I spotted Venus Flytraps on sale. I just had to have one. I'm a young student living in Toronto, Canada, so I have many other priorities but I thought keeping a VFT would be quite entertaining. I'll leave a few pictures below. Keep in mind that us Torontonians have just finished what looks like a very long and dreary winter.

I read everything on the website but I still have a few questions.
1. I don't have much access to the required water. But I think I do have a Brita water filter somewhere. Would that count as reverse osmosis water? As well I have a few bottles of "Real Canadian Spring Water" would that work as well?
2. I'm thinking of replanting it as it does look a bit squishy. Would styrofoam cups or clear plastic cups work? And since I only have one little guy I was thinking of just digging around for some random dirt to add to what looks like the moss reccommended in the website, (spelgen moss or something? I have horrible memory).
3. As well as can someone take a look at the picture and give me a generalization of how much I should feed it? I was thinking feeding the two biggest traps 2-3 times a week with bugs I can try to catch after school, or some fish food.

Below is a picture of my Venus Flytrap! Any general comments would be great! This is where I plan on keeping it for the time being, or at least during the day.



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First thing's first, Brita filter well not work, nor will spring water, plenty of stores have distilled water by the gallon or even five gallons

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Hm... But I only have the one little guy and I kind of wanna save some cash and time.


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A Styrofoam cup would work, but using dirt from outside will not work you will need peat for that or long fibered sphagnum moss, you way need to remove the media it is in depending on where you got it from

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It will most likely fire if you use the Brita filter or spring water

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But you could test your tap water to see if it has to many dissolved solids in it, if not then you could use that

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Also, the plant won't need more than a couple bugs a month but try not to give it anything much bigger than half the size of the trap

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Okay thanks! I'll try to see what I can do in terms of water. This was really helpful!


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No problem, if you have any other questions just ask

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Hello from montreal

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Hello and welcome to FlytrapCare!

Hello from winnipeg Manitoba!!! It's cold again /:


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