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title: "Hi team carnivorous 👋 I’m brand new to the bug eater club & was…"
description: "Hi team carnivorous 👋 I’m brand new to the bug eater club & was advised to plant my little babies in a 50/50 mix of Sphagnum & Perlite. So I started the…"
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community: "Carnivorous Corner"
author: "MudSkipper Jnr"
published: "2024-03-19T10:09:36.244527Z"
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# Hi team carnivorous 👋 I’m brand new to the bug eater club \& was…

_Posted by MudSkipper Jnr on 2024-03-19_

Hi team carnivorous 👋  
I’m brand new to the bug eater club \& was advised to plant my little babies in a 50/50 mix of Sphagnum \& Perlite.  
So I started the process of repotting today as my new babies are in a simple peat mix which seems very heavy \& borderline stodgy.

My question is regarding the live sphagnum mix I bought. Do I need to pick out all the little brown twig/pine needle looking bits so it’s just the green sphagnum going into the perlite mix or should I chuck it all in as is?

Thanks in advance 🙏

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## 4 comments

### nepenthomancer commented on 2024-03-24

These are VFT seeds? You can leave it as is

#### MudSkipper Jnr replied on 2024-03-24

Sorry I probably wasn’t clear, the bits bottom right are what I picked out of the sphagnum, I’m repotting young adult plants

### nepenthomancer commented on 2024-03-25

No what type of seeds are you referring to not that

### MudSkipper Jnr commented on 2024-03-25

No seeds, I have small plants

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