european nightcrawlers

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
S

stingray94

Feeder Fish
MFK Member
Aug 22, 2007
603
0
0
Rhode Island
Hi guys,
For the past month I have been feeding my ray european nightcrawlers from the baitshop. I buy 12 at a time and they last about a week, I'm sick of going out to buy them every week so I've been looking online to see if I can buy in bulk anywhere. This place has excellent prices, but the minimum order is 500 worms. Has anybody dealt with this place before:
http://www.beaverbait.com/BulkWorms.html

500 worms would last me about 4-6 months. The 12 worms that I buy a week now I just keep in the container that the bait shops sells them in for a week in the garage, I don't feed them or anything. Now, if I were to have 500 worms I would probably have to care for them more. The website says that the worms eat newspaper? Would 500 worms be okay if I were to keep them in a styrofoam container used to ship fish with shredded newspaper? I would obviously cut holes in the top of the container. Has anybody done this before? thanks
 
buy a big cheap plastic bin from wal-mart and use peat-moss as a bedding for them. its like $3 for a bag of it. make sure to keep it MOIST (not dry, and not dripping wet either)

you can feed them quite alot of things.....coffee grinds, egg shells, leftover vegetable matter, dead leaves, egg cartons, newspaper, lots of scraps from your kitchen work well......treat it EXACTLY like a compost pile...DO NOT USE ANY MEAT OR DAIRY OTHER THAN EGG SHELLS. hell, they even make a worm chow that runs a few bucks for a pound, and lasts forever. can use chicken mash too.

come spring, use the peatmoss as an aditive for you or your parents/wifes/husbands/girlfriends/boyfriends whoevers garden or potted plants. best fert out there, since it will basically just be worm crap by then and its 100% natural.

those 500 worms will quickly double, then triple.....do it now, and this time next year you will have many, MNAY more than you do now. worms breed like a convict on viagra
 
IKeepPacu;2386760; said:
buy a big cheap plastic bin from wal-mart and use peat-moss as a bedding for them. its like $3 for a bag of it. make sure to keep it MOIST (not dry, and not dripping wet either)

you can feed them quite alot of things.....coffee grinds, egg shells, leftover vegetable matter, dead leaves, egg cartons, newspaper, lots of scraps from your kitchen work well......treat it EXACTLY like a compost pile...DO NOT USE ANY MEAT OR DAIRY OTHER THAN EGG SHELLS. hell, they even make a worm chow that runs a few bucks for a pound, and lasts forever. can use chicken mash too.

come spring, use the peatmoss as an aditive for you or your parents/wifes/husbands/girlfriends/boyfriends whoevers garden or potted plants. best fert out there, since it will basically just be worm crap by then and its 100% natural.

those 500 worms will quickly double, then triple.....do it now, and this time next year you will have many, MNAY more than you do now. worms breed like a convict on viagra
Click to expand...

Wow thanks for all of the help, how big of a rubbermaid should I buy? How often do I change the peat moss?
 
Update:
today I went out a bought a rubbermaid countainer and a bag of peat moss. tommorow I will be shredding newspaper because I read that it is best to have a mix of peat moss/newspaper.
 
good going.

keep up with it, and you can have yourself an almost never-ending supply of fresh foods for your fish and even reptiles if you have any. they will definatly breed like mad, and will cost you almost nothing since you can feed them kitchen scraps that would goto garbage anyway.

remember to make sure their bedding is nice and moist. not dripping, muddy wet, but not crumbling apart dry. you want their bedding ideally to be able to stick together and form a ball and squeeze out some water from it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom