New way to view Utric traps

[jack]

While studying up on my Utric. dichotoma and learning they grow as a terrestrial and an aquatic I decided to grow my plant in that manner. Using a square glass container I cut a piece of mesh to fit the diagonal and filled one side with a peat/sand mix and the other side with water. I used lfs to keep the peat from escaping. I find this way to view traps superior because I can change the water more often. As you can see in the photos U. dichotoma grows better as an aquatic.
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sorry for some of the bluryness Jack

 

[gill_za]

Interesting
On the last picture do you have something in the water..food for utrics perhaps? Or is it LFS debris?

 

[jack]

They are food, without a microscope I'm not sure what type (probably daphnia).

 

[gill_za]

Jack,

where did you get daphnia? I checked the pet stores and they only sell dead, sterilized and frozen ones...

 

[boxofrain]

Daphnia are the size of a pinhead and pink to orange colored, easily seen with the naked eye.

 

[Brokken]

Jack,

where did you get daphnia? I checked the pet stores and they only sell dead, sterilized and frozen ones...

The question is where WON'T you get Daphnia? Anywhere there's green water you'll find daphnia. Just leaving a container of water where it gets a decent amount of sun and doesn't get boiling hot daphnia will occur naturally. Just take a few blades of grass, dunk them in stagnant water and daphnia are sure to appear.

 

[boxofrain]

The question is where WON'T you get Daphnia? Anywhere there's green water you'll find daphnia. Just leaving a container of water where it gets a decent amount of sun and doesn't get boiling hot daphnia will occur naturally. Just take a few blades of grass, dunk them in stagnant water and daphnia are sure to appear.

Not true....protazoa and paramecium may flourish from dry grasses, but Daphnia are not those.

 

[jack]

What ever they are they grow in my trays with vft and sarrs that I keep outside (and they do lots of circles) so maybe paramecium.

 

[gill_za]

What ever they are they grow in my trays with vft and sarrs that I keep outside (and they do lots of circles) so maybe paramecium.

paramecium are too small to bee seen so easily.