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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2007 2:37:04 GMT
okay so i know your supposed to makesure they have aquatic insects for them to catch but is it possible to feed them fish food like you can with some other cp's like Cephalotus...it would be more time consuming having to place the small amounts of food in the trap but would it help the plant to grow...i have 3 1 inch plants and theya rent doing to good and i think its cause thye arent getting enough to eat.....and i ahve the time but i dotn want to give it to them and then they die....
update: sadly iw ent upstairs to check on my plants after typing this and one of the little plants broke down into individual wheels andit looks dead however the wheels are a the surface like a normal plants would be.....
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Post by rsivertsen on Sept 28, 2007 11:19:02 GMT
The lower axils and stems break off as they get old and die, but the plant grows new ones from the apical growth piont. If the strand is still growing, and prducing traps, it's still alive enough to feed, but you will need to remove the old spent food before the fungus and algae gets to it, which will eventually consume the entire strands and everything else in the whole container. All this is very labor intensive, and you may also need a jewlers loupe or some magnifying lenses to help see these smaller traps better.
In the wild, there are hundreds of small living organisims that do all this for the plant, and is why I keep saying that these plants are part of a very complex symbiotic community involving other plants and animals and can't survive very long sequestered away form their constituant members of this intimate relationship; no other CP I know of is so dependant on other plants and animals for its very existance. Once again, it's not the chemistry of the water so much, but it's the biology that matters most.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2007 21:57:19 GMT
ok thanks rsivertsen
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2007 22:33:56 GMT
yeah so sdaly im down to 1 little strand left so in a last stitch attempt i brought home 5 gallons of lake water crawdads and all and put them in an aquarium then put my strand in there hoping it will do better and hopefully grow.......
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Post by rsivertsen on Oct 2, 2007 0:35:22 GMT
I wish you luck, but these's a lot more to it that just that aspect of it; they also need the close association with the roots of large monocot plants, as well as the entire zooplankton community, (copepods, daphnia, etc), snails and other things that are commonly found in ponds.
Recently, I've noticed that some robust strands just happen to be floating directly over a large patch of tubiflex worms dancing in the clay rich detritus just a few cm from the plants.
The chemistry of the water is not as important, but I can't dismiss it either, iron and boron seem to be essential to these plants.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2007 23:44:44 GMT
thanks ....im trying to use all the info here that you and others around the sight have given me to keep them alive.....
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Post by nepenthes99 on May 30, 2011 18:45:51 GMT
If you do not have access to a pond or stream, You could order some daphnia cultures from Carolina biological supply.
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Post by petmantis on Jun 4, 2011 16:55:17 GMT
If you do not have access to a pond or stream, You could order some daphnia cultures from Carolina biological supply. The last post here was in 2007 - why resurrect an old thread? I hardly think it'll help the thread author now... |
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