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By SnapSnapIOM
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#101081
I bought some small silent crickets for my plants yesterday (VFT's had some fun)

I placed a dead cricket on the sundew so it couldnt get away lol but this morning its in the same place :( I thought the plants leafs would curl up over the insect ?

I also heard that feeding your sundew with crushed up betta fish food pellets using a small pippet was good and also increase te growth rate up some ?
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By stitz25b
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#101082
why not use ants that are live? aliciaes love them!
By Grey
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#101084
Although a different species, I feed my D. Capensis Alba blood worms. Crushed betta pellets work for sundews, as well. As for leaf curling, I believe D. Aliciae do curl their leaves over food they are going to digest, but am not 100% certain.
By Daniel_G
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#101214
It can take a few day's to curl if there isn't alot of movement, in this case it did, but now, it'll enjoy it's meal :twisted:
By victor
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#101372
Yeah its digesting!!!
By tommyr
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#101396
I feed my Sundews finely ground up tropical fish food. Just a tiny pinch sprinkled on a few leaves. Works great. Maybe once a month. If I remember.
By Daniel_G
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#101446
MICKEY wrote:i was told ants are no good for cps
I know for a fact, that Nepenthes likes them, as they catch hundreds in the wild.
Cephalotus has a taste for ants in particular too, i pop one or two in sometimes, and i will do every week.

I don't know where you got that information from, but it's not right.
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