Carnivorous plants and Tarantulas

I have a sarracenia that has been growing like a weed since I bought it (I keep it waterlogged and in full sun). I have split it into three and the two parts I kept are doing well (I gave the third to my sister).

Glad you are enjoying this is one of my spiders saying hello lol

This thread is fascinating, thanks for starting it

 Full sun is good for them. Grow really well and colour up more with full sun. I'm gonna try some butterworts from seed soon, have some in my ebay basket lol i can send a link if you likr, they are less than £2

I have a little grow tent, it has opaque sides, do they need full sun?

Have you any butterworts? I'd like to try them next..

Awesome plants. Binata's are my favorite Drosera! Apparently you can grow Cephalotus outdoors under glass. Just with a regular C.P 50/50 peat/perlite mix but I grow mine in a tent and they love it. So, they will grow fine in a greenhouse but just need to protect from frost really.

Hi! I started a couple of years ago with one Sarracenia from a car boot sale, it survived the winter so last year I got some different varieties/species and have been fascinated ever since. I check them every day to see what they are up to... excited to have a first Sarracenia flower...

I have a couple of sundews - binata & capensis, darlingtonia, nepenthes and some more colourful Sarras.

I chucked last years capensis seed heads in a pot and am amazed to see hundreds of miniscule plants now.

The Cephalotus look stunning but do seem a bit more advanced, are they indoors only like the nepenthes?

It's really crazy. I actually believe that plants are intelligent but we just have no way to communicate with them.....well i dont lol A really cool one is Pudica.mimosa, that one blows my mind.

Awww, that sucks his tarantula died. Hope he has better luck with his new one. I did have a.bit of a phobia with spiders but had to look after some in a work setting and got interested in them and then bought some lol

Yeah, Sundews are easy to keep if you know how to keep them. Always best to re pot when you get them as the soil come in really isnt adequate and they'll eventually die. The Cepalotus are quite easy really, just peat moss and perlite....A.I is a good tool to learn how to grow.so stuff is optimum. I dont feed them bugs but I do feed them a follular spray to fertilize them

I don't have a specific interest in then, more a broader one of natural history. I looked up your Avicularia and they look really cool, arboreal and then all have pink foot pads in that genus! That's a pretty cool fact. 

My nephew is into tarantulas, he had one a few years ago, but the heat pad malfunctioned and it didn't survive. After a few years break, he's got another one last week and hopefully a better heat set up!

I also looked up the Cephalotus, and wow, you grow pitcher plants! They look absolutely awesome, I imagine their care is very tricky, do you need to feed them insects too? We foolhardedly got a sundew once from a garden center but we aren't very good at looking after plants so it didn't last. 

Two really fascinating interests!

I find carnivorous plants to be fascinating. I mean, plants with nerve endings!? That's pretty crazy, if you think about it!