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title: "Please someone help I’m new to carnivorous plants and this flu trap…"
description: "Please someone help I’m new to carnivorous plants and this flu trap started failing on me what do I do!!! I fed her a few pill bugs and a beetle three weeks…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/nCqjNmswTlS-vtdufEldHw/aQ5b5vRfQ7KtwOtMeYcABA"
community: "Carnivorous Corner"
author: "PlantMurderer"
published: "2024-11-26T04:38:26.788767Z"
language: "en"
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# Please someone help I’m new to carnivorous plants and this flu trap…

_Posted by PlantMurderer on 2024-11-26_

Please someone help I’m new to carnivorous plants and this flu trap started failing on me what do I do!!!  
I fed her a few pill bugs and a beetle three weeks ago and things went downhill from there

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/OLbbe0Awy5otaHzh4Gjq5m6gWA8ocXFI0kxyQGxe5Y8/YvbEdxJLTdC_0xy1pOXpiA.webp?size=large)

## 10 comments

### Ezzeldin Yaqoub commented on 2024-11-26

It is normal and natural for old traps to die and you even have a new trap on the way so it is ok and not dying.

#### PlantMurderer replied on 2024-11-26

It has lost seven other traps in the past days too, is that still normal?

#### Ezzeldin Yaqoub replied on 2024-11-26

Are you drowning in direct sunlight light, because they need lots of it. Also don’t feed it too frequently since traps only close a few times before dying off, only feed it once a month since bugs are their fertilizer and don’t use normal fertilizer that will kill it and don’t use tap water that will also kill it. Instead use distilled, reverse osmosis or rain water.

#### PlantMurderer replied on 2024-11-26

I’m giving it VERY minimal light and I’m only using distilled water but I have no idea what the store I bought it from used

#### Ezzeldin Yaqoub replied on 2024-11-26

That is bad, it needs a lot of direct sunlight to thrive and live.

#### PlantMurderer replied on 2024-12-03

Alright I did a rework how’s this looking?

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/OLbbe0Awy5otaHzh4Gjq5m6gWA8ocXFI0kxyQGxe5Y8/9gdzw31pSnajKj919yCpJA.webp?size=large)

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### Wolfen 🐺 commented on 2024-11-26

It should be in a tray of water. Rain water or Distilled. Tap will kill it. They go into dormancy in the winter. And if you trigger a trap 3+ times it will die. So alternate feeding

#### PlantMurderer replied on 2024-12-03

Will they still go into dormancy in controlled environments?

#### Wolfen 🐺 replied on 2024-12-03

Generally yes. They few i have indoors start to go into dormancy. And i move them to a cooler, less light part of the apartment.

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