Matt wrote:xr280xr wrote:Small or average?
I'm not sure that it's as simple as that.
Sorry, because this is probably going to be annoying and I don't mean it to be, but I'm obviously missing something. I'm not understanding why there isn't an average adult Red Piranha size which to compare to. I get that they can vary a lot larger under certain conditions, like those you mentioned of Steve's in NM. But that's where the averaging comes in, right?
Matt wrote:But they're fairly large for Red Piranha; small for an average flytrap.
I guess this is adding to the confusion because in most of
the pictures I've seen of Red Piranha, they look a minimum of twice the size of those in my non-dormant photo. The traps pictured in the flytrapstore look 8-10x larger. On average, the pictured traps seem about 3-4x larger. The biggest trap in my photo (which is the biggest they ever grew) was no more than 3/16". The closeness & sharpness of the photo may be deceiving. Relative to my collection, those I've seen in pictures with something for scale, and those I've seen in stores, I'd describe them more like hovering somewhere between microscopic and tiny for an average flytrap.
What I was really wondering originally was will they ever grow large enough to be able to appreciate without a magnifying glass or blown up photo. I didn't even realize how beautiful these were until I saw the photo above after I took it. From your description of "fairly large", I'd think the answer is "maybe, barely" since there's still room for "very large". In comparison to all the pictures I've seen though, I had thought the answer would've been "almost certainly".