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Betta Pellets, and Betta "Treats" - Ingredients Question
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Exo
Tastes like chicken!
Exo
Tastes like chicken!
Every adelae I gave betta pellets to stopped making dew and all the leaves drooped.
Well, that answers your question I guess. I give my sundews fishflake but I don't have any adelae so I don't know how they would react to that either.
I feed my all of my drosera, including all of my adelaes, Aqueon Betta Food (has a "NATURAL" ingredients/colors stamp on it) that I get from PetSmart, and have great results in all cases.
The adelaes I have in 30-50% humidity DO almost always stop producing dew on the leaf the pellet was on, but it has never affected the adelae's other leaves.
The adelaes I have in 70-90% humidity never lose any dew from being fed these particular betta pellets.
Both the dews outside the terarium and inside the terrarium are under the same fluorescent light, and are at the same distance from the light. Temp hovers around 75-82 F night/day.
None of my other drosera have different reactions to the betta pellets under lower levels of humidity. Which brings me to my bulletproof conclusion:
drosera adelae are all insane.
The adelaes I have in 30-50% humidity DO almost always stop producing dew on the leaf the pellet was on, but it has never affected the adelae's other leaves.
The adelaes I have in 70-90% humidity never lose any dew from being fed these particular betta pellets.
Both the dews outside the terarium and inside the terrarium are under the same fluorescent light, and are at the same distance from the light. Temp hovers around 75-82 F night/day.
None of my other drosera have different reactions to the betta pellets under lower levels of humidity. Which brings me to my bulletproof conclusion:
drosera adelae are all insane.
I used crushed up betta sticks for all my dews. They ate it, dried up, and either died or molted afterwards. The rest of the plant started growing great, but that part of the plant I fed didn't do so well afterwards. I spritzed it a couple times to wash the mold off. But it was a real bummer seeing the plants get ugly after feeding them. I'm onto making fruit fly cultures now.
jimscott
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One of the ingredients is copper sulphate, which is used as an algaecide in aquariums!
I've used these too, with no ill effect... and they are 'all natural'
Before, when it was doing great:
After, with no change in humity:
I also put some in my only nep's pitchers. Luckily it's shown no ill effects. I think I'm going to pitch these pellets.
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Where were you when I posted the ingredients before?! :-(
After, with no change in humity:
I also put some in my only nep's pitchers. Luckily it's shown no ill effects. I think I'm going to pitch these pellets.
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Where were you when I posted the ingredients before?! :-(
hmmm that actually happened to me a long time ago when I had my Adelae plantlets growing in very small pots that were too waterlogged. They were doing ok on their own, but when I fed them a fruit fly, it pushed them over the limit. How much water are you using on these guys?
As a test, you need to try feeding roughly the same amount of fruit fly mass in comparison to the pellet and see if it has the same effect on your younger plants.
As a test, you need to try feeding roughly the same amount of fruit fly mass in comparison to the pellet and see if it has the same effect on your younger plants.
If the pellets are made in China I'd toss them. After all the flap about contaminated pet food, toys and medical products it seems to me a wise decision. I'll only use the much more expensive Japanese made pellets. Just in appearance alone there is a difference in quality as apparent as the difference between night and day.
Yes, and I've seen D. adelae plantlets crash like that unfed for no apparent reason. It seems to be an enigmatic species - hard to kill but also hard to hit the sweet spot condition-wise where it grows well. Of course it could be that since it is in mass tissue culture that there are just a bunch of weak clones in circulation. It's a matter of the luck of the draw which plant you get.
Yes, and I've seen D. adelae plantlets crash like that unfed for no apparent reason. It seems to be an enigmatic species - hard to kill but also hard to hit the sweet spot condition-wise where it grows well. Of course it could be that since it is in mass tissue culture that there are just a bunch of weak clones in circulation. It's a matter of the luck of the draw which plant you get.
You're saying your sig applies to plants, too.
