european nightcrawlers

[stingray94]

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.

I did add some water to the peat moss to make sure that it was nice and moist. How often should I be spraying the bin to keep it moist? thanks

 

[fobrinkle]

got any pics? I like this idea.

 

[stingray94]

got any pics? I like this idea.

I'll get some up for you tomorrow

 

[liberator177]

Ive heard that putting a peice of bread on top of the dirt will make to worms come to the surface to eat the bread, and the kind of collect under it, so you won't have to dig around to find some worms.

 

[stingray94]

Ive heard that putting a peice of bread on top of the dirt will make to worms come to the surface to eat the bread, and the kind of collect under it, so you won't have to dig around to find some worms.

Thanks for the tip, I've heard that the food should be buried 1-2 inches under the surface of the dirt.

 

[stingray94]

I'll get pictures soon my digital camera is out of batteries. I have the worms in my garage and have been noticing a lot of them escaping!?!?! What can I do to prevent my garage from being filled with dead worms? thanks

 

[IKeepPacu]

I'll get pictures soon my digital camera is out of batteries. I have the worms in my garage and have been noticing a lot of them escaping!?!?! What can I do to prevent my garage from being filled with dead worms? thanks

either cover the bin with a lid or piece of wood with air holes etc...., or put a bright light over the top of it, as worms dont like light.

as for when to moisten it more, check it say every few days or so, until you notice you cant squeeze much water out, then just add more. after awhile you will get the fee for how often and how much water you need to add without even checking. dont get too worried about adding too much water by accident, it wont kill them. just dont have it forming pools up top or the bottom of the bin.

 

[stingray94]

either cover the bin with a lid or piece of wood with air holes etc...., or put a bright light over the top of it, as worms dont like light.

as for when to moisten it more, check it say every few days or so, until you notice you cant squeeze much water out, then just add more. after awhile you will get the fee for how often and how much water you need to add without even checking. dont get too worried about adding too much water by accident, it wont kill them. just dont have it forming pools up top or the bottom of the bin.

I do have the bin covered with a lid, it's one of those rubbermaid containers that you buy at walmart that come with a lid. Somebody told me that one way to prevent them from escaping is to put a damp piece of cardboard over the peat moss so I guess I'm going to have to see how that ends up working. Thanks for all the help.

 

[invisyblegypsey]

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

try here i get all my live food from them
http://www.nyworms.com/index.html

 

[TheFishJunky]

good advice.Just dont forget that night crawlers need to be kept cool.I just started a worm farm of my own but with red wigglers/earth worms