What is the best artificial food to feed the traps?
I’ve tried Hikari Betta Bio-Gold fish food pellets and found the plants digest almost all of them. All that was left was a very small dark grain, much less residue than from a fly. Because the pellets are hard when dry, I soaked them in water a few hours to rehydrate them. I don’t know if this makes a difference. Freeze dried tubiflex worms have turned out to be the easiest to use so far. They come in 1/4-inch dry foamy cubes that can be cut with a razor blade into any convenient size and shape. I have three plants feeding on this right now and it’ll be interesting to see how thoroughly they are digested. (Initial results aren’t promising. Half of the traps fed tubiflex worms died. The others are still closed after more than a month.) One interesting area of exploration is that using a dry food that can soak up water before being fed to a plant is that instead of just water it could be made to absorb water to which vitamins, fertilizers, and perhaps even growth hormones have been added
