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Yeah you'd be right, they are two different moss types the one on the right is one that I see in all carnivorous plants that I get from stores that use peat. It probably occurs naturally with the peat that is harvested, I believe it is a "star moss" could be wrong though. The one on the left looks like you got actual lfsm growing.
Here is where my spag started growing. It is pretty small and withered since it has not been fed and has been in low light, it is a hundred percent spag though as I can trace the small portions back to where they were bigger and an extension of the fiber.

star moss

Left side is Sphagnum and right is 'sheet moss' and of little use to carnivorous plants, unless yu like it as a top dressing.
Cheers
Steve

Hi Andy

steve booth wrote:I have a couple that were in LFSM when I got them and they are doing great.

Yes, indeed they do, I grow many in live Sphagnum and they do look to grow better that in my peat mixes. I find the live Sphagnum very useful for plants that are failing a bit, or where I have had rot and I had to cut most/all the rhizome off, it does have antiseptic qualities.
Cheers
Steve