Do NOT give VFTs water with sodium of any kind. ONLY water with distilled, rain, or water from a reverse osmosis filter. Give them lots of full sunlight and stand them in a tray of water about 1/2 inch deep and they pretty much take care of themselves. If you buy your VFT from Petflytrap they will include a very good basic care sheet with your plant.[b said:Quote[/b] (Finch @ Feb. 19 2004,18:58)]Give them low sodium purified water
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Do NOT give VFTs water with sodium of any kind. ONLY water with distilled, rain, or water from a reverse osmosis filter
[b said:Quote[/b] ]they can eat lady bugs
[b said:Quote[/b] ] Almost 95% of the traps turned black and died with in a week
This sounds more like an overfeeding problem than what was fed. The traps are designed to only catch one bug at a time. Catching 3 or 4 at once is about the same as feeding it too large of a bug. It cant digest it all before it begins to rot inside the trap and then the traps turn black and die. In most cases the plants will rebound from this, but if the plant is not in good health to begin with it could be fatal for the plant.[b said:Quote[/b] (Jeremiah Harris @ Feb. 20 2004,09:18)]in day or two ever single one had been caught but a flytrap sometimes as many as 3 or 4 were in one trap. Almost 95% of the traps turned black and died with in a week.