Question: Bait shop worms

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I've been feeding my Stanley off of earthworms from my garden, but I think I'm diminishing my supply.. I was wondering if I could go to a bait shop or hardware /garden store and buy some worms to feed him. Is that safe?

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A garden store would be okay, but I personally wouldn't recommend a bait shop.
 
I'm having the same problem. I bought red wigglers from walmart.
 
It's easy enough to set up a worm farm - I got my worms from and a specialist who supplies them in different grades for bait, live food, composting and organic farming.

Big bucket, starter medium (special compost) and 500 worms came to about £50, and I now have a self sustaining colony - all you need is a shady spot in the garden and some vegetable scraps.

Bait shop worms are ofen wild-caught, and may carry parasites or be contaminated with pesticides, herbicides or other checmicals. But if you wash the worms, make up a farm for them and quarantine them for a few weeks you will soon have a self sustaining supply.
 
I ordered my worms from an online company, they stock bait worms and feeder worms, i always buy the live food ones but im a bit skeptical that they actually have different tanks for the different 'grades'
Im just lucky as it is purely a little company raising worms in their own vats with no plants ect so pesticides are not needed.
Have a look online see what you can find :D
 
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