Does anybody breed worms for fish food? I have been doing it for the last year and have had good results. I breed the European nightcrawlers and Canadian nightcrawlers.
Breeding Nightcrawlers.
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I've got some in the garage right now that are breeding.
Nightcrawlers is all I know. Left over bait.
Nightcrawlers is all I know. Left over bait.
How do you do it, I read somewhere to add egg shells.
Do you yust put them in a big box and hope they breed or what.
Do you yust put them in a big box and hope they breed or what.
I wasn't actually trying to breed them, but they are in a small tote with some dirt (unfertilized garden soil), eggshells yes, and damp newspaper.
My wife heard of the eggshell thing as well and put them in there.
I know years ago, my grandfather grew them by putting a piece of clear plastic on the ground in an always shaded spot at the edge of a woods. Guess they liked the humidity.
We always had tons of fat wigglers.
My wife heard of the eggshell thing as well and put them in there.
I know years ago, my grandfather grew them by putting a piece of clear plastic on the ground in an always shaded spot at the edge of a woods. Guess they liked the humidity.
We always had tons of fat wigglers.
This is what I used.
2x Large rubbermaid containers
2x 50lbs bags of Michigan Sphagnum moss
4x plain brown cardboard boxes
1x 25 lbs of pelletized limestone
4x tubs of canadian nightcrawlers from bait store
500x european nightcrawlser from a worm breeder
I poured in 2 inches of moss, then a layer of wet out cardboard cut into strips. I did 4 layers of moss and 3 layers of cardboard. This was 1 whole 50 lbs bag of moss per container. You should wet the soil to the point that when you grab a handful of it and squeeze, you will get a couple drops of water.
I sealed the containers except for some small breather holes. The europeans are active and will try to escape. I lost about 100 worms before I taped the holes.
I feed 1 cup of moist oatmeal, egglayer mash, or baby rice/oat cereal once a week. I take my hand and make a 3 inch wide channel about 2 inches deep. Then I pour the softened food into the channel. Right before feeding I turn up the whole bed to aerate the soil. You may need to adjust feeding the worms based on what will disappear after 2 days.
I use the pelletized limestone to raise the PH. I use about 8.0. I pour a couple cups of pelletized lime stone in a cup and wet it out to break it apart. The larger pellets could cause the worms to suffer from alkaline burn which will cause them to slough off their skin and die.
After about the first two weeks when I started turning the soil I found worm eggs, they look like BBs made out of amber. A couple weeks after that I started to find tons of little .25-.5 inch worms.
Every six months, when you feed, only make a channel from the middle of the tub to the end. Then remove half of the dirt, and replace with new moss. Then you can use the dirt to raise some vegetables or something. I grow garlic with the dirt. I use the garlic with crushed baby vitamins (phosphate free) to pickle larger worms. This is power food for a predator fish. The fish go crazy over the garlic and it helps boost their immune systems. I also marinate jumbo shrimp in the same mixture.
Way cheaper than the expensive store bought foods and twice the nutrition with no fillers. The stuff that these companies use for fillers is probably what I use to feed the worms.
2x Large rubbermaid containers
2x 50lbs bags of Michigan Sphagnum moss
4x plain brown cardboard boxes
1x 25 lbs of pelletized limestone
4x tubs of canadian nightcrawlers from bait store
500x european nightcrawlser from a worm breeder
I poured in 2 inches of moss, then a layer of wet out cardboard cut into strips. I did 4 layers of moss and 3 layers of cardboard. This was 1 whole 50 lbs bag of moss per container. You should wet the soil to the point that when you grab a handful of it and squeeze, you will get a couple drops of water.
I sealed the containers except for some small breather holes. The europeans are active and will try to escape. I lost about 100 worms before I taped the holes.
I feed 1 cup of moist oatmeal, egglayer mash, or baby rice/oat cereal once a week. I take my hand and make a 3 inch wide channel about 2 inches deep. Then I pour the softened food into the channel. Right before feeding I turn up the whole bed to aerate the soil. You may need to adjust feeding the worms based on what will disappear after 2 days.
I use the pelletized limestone to raise the PH. I use about 8.0. I pour a couple cups of pelletized lime stone in a cup and wet it out to break it apart. The larger pellets could cause the worms to suffer from alkaline burn which will cause them to slough off their skin and die.
After about the first two weeks when I started turning the soil I found worm eggs, they look like BBs made out of amber. A couple weeks after that I started to find tons of little .25-.5 inch worms.
Every six months, when you feed, only make a channel from the middle of the tub to the end. Then remove half of the dirt, and replace with new moss. Then you can use the dirt to raise some vegetables or something. I grow garlic with the dirt. I use the garlic with crushed baby vitamins (phosphate free) to pickle larger worms. This is power food for a predator fish. The fish go crazy over the garlic and it helps boost their immune systems. I also marinate jumbo shrimp in the same mixture.
Way cheaper than the expensive store bought foods and twice the nutrition with no fillers. The stuff that these companies use for fillers is probably what I use to feed the worms.