Quote[/b] (Nepenthe @ Mar. 14 2004,14:20)]
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Quote[/b] ]I saw the biggest pitcher was full of water, on the way home I bought a goldfish in it, And that fish has helped it alot, was this a wise choice?
What the...
:sigh:
Feeding
goldfish to a Nepenthes is a bad idea on so many different levels. With the money you spent on the
goldfish you could have purchased crickets or even fish food. Both of those would feed your Nepenthes far more efficiently and effectively than a freakin'
goldfish.
Feeding
goldfish to a snake, on the other hand, makes a little more sense because those animals are a little more equipped to handle such a meal.
Anyway, I really doubt that anyone would be able to transpot a Nepenthes miranda from a store, in a car or wherever and into your house, and in the process keep the pitcher full of enough water to keep a
goldfish alive. Even IF you didn't spill any, there is no way Lowes is humid enough for a Nepenthes to keep so much water in a pitcher. The pitcher must have been refilled with water when you got it situated.
That means that the fluid in the pitcher is so dilute that it has little chance of doing more than killing the
goldfish slowly and digesting tiny fragments of the body. As Griffin said, the plant would most likely benefit more from the waste of the
goldfish in the shot time that it was alive.
I'm sure that the dead
goldfish would have rotted before the pitcher had enough time to secrete enough digestive fluid to take a serious bite out of the fish.
Next time, if there is a next time, just stick the fish in a blender (AFTER you humanely kill it by blugeoning) and use the fluid to feed your plant.
I can't believe that I am even writing about this.
-T