- Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:30 am
#99322
Hello my name is Jacob and I'm new to the site. I recently potted some VFT and I am having trouble feeding them. I have tried dead and live bugs. My main question is the four phases of the digestion. I have successfully made my plant trap make the initial snap and close on a bug. Then It gets to the tightening phase. But i can't get past that. I want to know if the sealing phase looks the same as the tightening phase on a regular vft from a hardware store. Or do the teeth pull outwards 30 mins or so later, in which they are no longer interlaced but the trap is sealed shut and the teeth are facing outwards.?? how do i know? I guess the reopening phase is a given. Also, I have a bug in a trap but 1/4 of the bug is sticking out. the trap is still closed. but that refers me back to my original question. So what happens if the bug is 1/4 or 1/2 out and the trap snaps and tightens??? does the bug have to be all the way in the center of the trap??? any help is appreciated. Thank You. -- JacobGGXP --