- Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:34 am
#50334
Hello! This is my first venus fly trap, and I'm hoping I haven't done something wrong. I got it at a local store in a tiny little plastic box. I took it out of that after about a week and put it in a glass cookie jar. It's tilted sideways, so it makes a good terrarium. I planted it in moss, as I couldn't find any perlite without chemicals in it. I'm keeping it inside under a normal light. I don't think it's quite warm enough, but it's not cold. I just leave the light on all the time.
I've been misting it daily with rainwater. "He" managed to get a couple of ants on his own.
Well, I noticed after I got him that one of his heads wasn't shaped quite right. It's not concave, like the classic venus flytrap head. It's more convex, like he stretched really hard one morning and got stuck And it appears that he didn't have any of the trigger hairs on that head.
After a while it dyed off, so I didn't give it another thought. Well, another head went from being 'normal' to 'convex'. It kinda looked like it might be dying, so I clipped it off. Now another one looks like it's trying to convex itself too.
Anyone have any idea what might be going on with the little guy?
I've been misting it daily with rainwater. "He" managed to get a couple of ants on his own.
Well, I noticed after I got him that one of his heads wasn't shaped quite right. It's not concave, like the classic venus flytrap head. It's more convex, like he stretched really hard one morning and got stuck And it appears that he didn't have any of the trigger hairs on that head.
After a while it dyed off, so I didn't give it another thought. Well, another head went from being 'normal' to 'convex'. It kinda looked like it might be dying, so I clipped it off. Now another one looks like it's trying to convex itself too.
Anyone have any idea what might be going on with the little guy?