# Anyone else grow carnivorous plants?
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**Created:** [May 4, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081 "2011-05-04T04:32:41Z")
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### Author:  [@yoyofoot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyofoot)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/1 "2011-05-04T04:32:41Z")
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So, does anyone else grow carnivorous plants? I have a mid-sized terrarium filled with some highland nepenthes and tropical sundews. I'm still fairly new at it, (I mean I've had a lot of my plants for a more than a couple years, about when I started) but there is one thing that is kind of confusing me. I [s]have[/s] had an empty pot with just live sphagnum moss, but now it has a mysterious little sundew family growing out of it. There's at least two or three all huddled together in there that spontaneously erupted from the pot. I have no idea what they are, and have never grown anything too similar to them. They're growing well, but it's kind of a delicate place where they are. The largest one (They appeared a few months ago) is about an inch in diameter and has several spoon shaped leaves coming out from the center, but is about an inch tall. I thought that seeds could have been in the pot when I ordered some plants, and now just finally germinated after something like a year. I just want to figure out what it is... The color of the little dew drops vary between clear and more of a reddish color, which is appearing stronger and stronger as time goes on.
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I can provide pictures if someone here grows carnivorous plants; otherwise I’m glad a whole bunch of people got to see me babble on about something that they don’t know too much about.
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### Author:  [@Griffsnog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Griffsnog)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/2 "2011-05-04T04:41:45Z")
We sold a variety of common carnivorous plants at my work one year but I don’t think there are enough bugs in orange county for them even though they don’t need much.
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### Author:  [@yoyofoot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyofoot)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/3 "2011-05-04T05:01:04Z")
They really don’t need any. They help if the plants are doing well anyways, but the bugs really speed up the growing process a little.
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### Author:  [@Griffsnog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Griffsnog)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/4 "2011-05-04T15:38:51Z")
I’ve always wanted a “walk in terrarium of death” with giant fly traps and preying mantises and poison dart frogs etc. Like a huge nasty ecosystem of toxic and aggressive tropical swamp ecosystem.
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### Author:  [@quinton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/quinton)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/5 "2011-05-04T16:07:25Z")
> [@Griffsnog](#):
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> I’ve always wanted a “walk in terrarium of death” with giant fly traps and preying mantises and poison dart frogs etc. Like a huge nasty ecosystem of toxic and aggressive tropical swamp ecosystem.
I love you.
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### Author:  [@popdada](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/popdada)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/6 "2011-05-05T01:29:23Z")
hello ladies…would ya like to come over to my place…? I got some carnivorous plants…and some yoyo’s, I could maybe show ya…
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### Author:  [@yoyofoot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyofoot)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/7 "2011-05-05T04:15:01Z")
At least I finally figured out what it was.
> [@Griffsnog](#):
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> I’ve always wanted a “walk in terrarium of death” with giant fly traps and preying mantises and poison dart frogs etc. Like a huge nasty ecosystem of toxic and aggressive tropical swamp ecosystem.
But now I want to figure out where to get one of these…
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### Author:  [@singdreamyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/singdreamyo)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/8 "2011-05-05T04:35:30Z")
I had Venus Flytraps a loonnng time ago. One of those things Mom thought would be cool to incorporate with science. I lived in GA at the time and there were plenty of bugs!
> [@Griffsnog](#):
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> I’ve always wanted a “walk in terrarium of death” with giant fly traps and preying mantises and poison dart frogs etc. Like a huge nasty ecosystem of toxic and aggressive tropical swamp ecosystem.
I had a praying mantis once (again another thing for science) They’re pretty cool. Kinda creepy though.
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### Author:  [@cheesenewt](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/cheesenewt)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anyone-else-grow-carnivorous-plants/26081/9 "2011-05-05T05:18:36Z")
One time my aunt gave me an octopus plant or something. The plant had multiple arms, and when something landed on it, there was a natural adhesive that kept it there. Then it would slowly roll its arm in and digest the prey. Pretty cool if you ask me