Carnivorous Plants in Terraria/Vivaria

[UncleChester]

This is terrific, thanks! That's pretty hilarious that darts will breed in the Nepenthes kind of traps.

It probably won't do me much good being across the border, but where do you get your carnivorous plants from? Venus fly-traps show up regularly in grocery stores later in the summer, and I've seen types of sundews once or twice in greenhouses, but that's about it.

[LilyPad]

Very interesting, thank you for sharing!!

[Rat The Unloved]

Brian - I get mine from various places, just like you mentioned. Grocery stores, greenhouses, etc. However, there are numerous CP breeders and enthusiasts that are more than happy to share cuttings, seeds, and young plants.

[John]

Rat, I'd love to convert this to the article format. Do you have permission to use the photos in the article?

I've heard of darts breeding in pitchers too, incidentally.

[Rat The Unloved]

John, all of the photographs are from Wikimedia, all of them use a CC "Attribution, share alike" or "Public domain" - I forgot to put attribution, which I can't quite believe I did. I can't seem to find where to edit the post but:

Venus Fly Trap is H. Zell, Bladderwort is by M. Grathwohl, Butterwort is by K. Stuber, Drosera by D. Barthel, the Nepenthes is public domain ("Nep Grower"), Sarracenia is by P. Oliver, Heliamphora is by A. Eils, Cephalotus is by M. Jaeurnig.

[John]

Thanks, are you sure none are non-commercial? By the way, I'd like to put your real name in the article.

[Zathura]

Thanks for the information OP. I'm a very passive fan of CP's, in that I usually have a couple Flytraps and Pitchers (commonly found cultivars only) outside. They pretty much take care of themselves, I only have to water them with distilled about twice a week for pitchers and once a week for flytraps. I always wondered how they'd do in a terrarium though.