Sounds like it may be a little weak at the moment. VFT's do like lots of light, more than most CP's. What kind of setup do you have? BTW, I wouldn't change its conditions until it has the opportunity to acclimate. What type of water are you using? They need distilled or deionized or RO or rain - but no tap or mineral water. Keep us posted.

It came bare-rooted and wrapped in LFS. I have a new whiskey barrel bog that was put in on Mother's Day. It is outside in bright sunlight (for six-eight hours a day). i have used a mixture of peat and sand for the bog, it is well watered and settled in. I had read that VFT do not like LFS around them and perfer slightly drier feet so I mounded up some of the peat and pulled the LFS away. That's where I planted the VFT. I raise orchids and am fanactical about using only rain water or distilled on all my plants. This morning it has raised one leaf up completely and a second is about halfway up.
Judy

Your setup is splendid! About LFS being a negative for VFT's,.... I don't know where you read that, but that is just the opposite of reality. They're indigeonous to growing media that has a layer of living LFS on top, followed by the decaying LFS (peat)and then sand. Live LFS is excellent cultivating material for most CP's. It has antisceptic qualities (from what I have read) and its texture allows for both drainage and pereservation for moisture. Not that you have to run right out and procure the live material, because the sand and peat is just fine, but don't feel that LFS is detrimental, especially the live LFS.

No problem, tomorrow I can go pout and put the LFS back onto that area of the bog, I just had pulled it aside from the VFT
Judy

what should i do if my traps have food in them but are going into dormancy??

Wait for the traps to blacken and then snip that which is dead plant material.

what is LFS?

Long Fibered Sphagnum moss. Should be at any DIY.

Okay folks, this little guy came with three large leaves and lots of smaller ones curled up, I assume new growth. The three largest leaves have still not fully raised up but yesterday morning all three had open traps, yesterday afternoon one of the traps had closed, yesterday evening two of them had. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for it.
Judy

Sounds like the plant is acclimating and growing. Good job! Don't change a thing!

When I look at the closed traps backlight you can see the outlines of bugs in the traps
Judy

See... all is going well! And unlike many of our youngsters who go out of their way to see the action, the VFT's are pretty efficient by themselves.

I learned early on that trying to feed a VFT a live bug almost always leads to heartbreak. Maybe I'm just inept, but nine times out of ten it results in an unproductive closure and a happy bug.

Although yesterday I saw it happen naturally and it was amazing. it was an actual fly this time, as opposed to the usual spider, mosquito, or night-time bug. Woohoo!