I never made an intro post...

[CarnivorousPlant]

Hey guys, I'm carnivorousplant and I have a bit of an obsession with fancy goldfish, the weirder the better.

I used to lurk on this forum a lot back in 2021, and I posted a couple times but I realise I never introduced myself. Now I'm back, and hopefully for good, so I figure I should say hi.

I have 2 tanks, one is a little one that has my betta, and the other has my three Goldfish. I've had a few false starts with keeping Goldfish in the past, but I've done all my research and finally managed to get a good setup which I've had for a few years now. One day im gonna have so many more fish tanks, I've already got plans to set up a second one for another betta. You people are right when you say they're addictive. I never thought I'd be keeping anything other than goldfish but here we are.

this is Gerard, my koi betta. I love her very much.

and this is my newest fish, who I've only had for two days but it's my pride and joy, I've always wanted a ranchu.

and yes I do grow carnivorous plants. The venus flytrap in the pfp is mine. They're my other hobby apart from fishkeeping (and probably the one I'm better at. please someone needs to come and take some sundews from me, they multiply too fast and im running out of space).

 

[GaryE]

I have a carnivorous pitcher plant, a Canadian species, growing in a bog tank. It needs artificial plant lights but it's surviving.

I can't keep fly traps alive here. Tough plants.

 

[CarnivorousPlant]

I can't keep fly traps alive here. Tough plants.

all the websites and books I read say that flytraps are supposed to be one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow, but it took me ages to get them right in the beginning. i recon sundews and sarracenia are much easier plants, I even had more luck with nepenthes, but I think its entierly location dependant tbh. Like sundews grow the best for me because I live in australia which is where most sundew species come from so i can kind of just stick 'em outside and let them do their thing.

I have a carnivorous pitcher plant, a Canadian species, growing in a bog tank. It needs artificial plant lights but it's surviving.

do you know exactly what species?

 

[emeraldking]

Nice belated introduction...
And welcome back as an active member...

 

[CarnivorousPlant]

Nice belated introduction...
And welcome back as an active member...

thanks!!

 

[GaryE]

all the websites and books I read say that flytraps are supposed to be one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow, but it took me ages to get them right in the beginning. i recon sundews and sarracenia are much easier plants, I even had more luck with nepenthes, but I think its entierly location dependant tbh. Like sundews grow the best for me because I live in australia which is where most sundew species come from so i can kind of just stick 'em outside and let them do their thing.


do you know exactly what species?

I believe I have Sarracenia purpurea.

 

[Uberhoust]

No fly traps or pitcher plants but I have kept a bunch of Drosera rotundifolia, in a couple of floating plant pots in my ponds for the last few years. The do grow quite well. I don't have to do anything with them for the winter, I just let them continue to stay in the ponds and they come back each spring.

 

[CarnivorousPlant]

I believe I have Sarracenia purpurea.

ooo I've got one of those as well. They're really cool plants