Looking for earthworms...?

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Hi y'all!

It is so hard to find earthworms here in Hawaii. I found one place but they wanted .25 cents a piece. That sounds like allot of you ask me. Is there someone here that sells them? Or any good sites online? Also, what type of earthworm do y'all mostly feed our axies?

Thanks a bunch!


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Sorry I don't know a good place to buy them where you are, but I just thought I'd chip in my 2 cents worth and suggest that if you splurge for a good number of start-up earthworms, you could create your own worm colony.
Compost your food scraps, and get a virtually un-ending, free source of worms. It's what I do, even though earthworms are common here.
 
Here's the guide to making a worm farm! http://www.caudata.org/forum/f46-be...-farming-almost-everything-you-need-know.html

If you get some worms to start with like kjnorman suggested you can just breed your own :)

I'm not sure about buying worms online myself. This may be a really stupid question but I legitimately don't know (I've never been to Hawaii!) - do you have earthworms you know... in the ground in Hawaii? ovo?? Again probably a dumb question but if you don't that would explain why they're so pricy.

In the worm farming guide there's also a guide to catching worms, is why I ask... When it gets warmer here I plan to catch my own and start a farm for when my Axolotl is big enough for worms.
 
If you are able to get a hand of some Eisenia fetida worms (they are commonly called red wigglers) it will be easy to get them to breed as a food source. If you start with a small group they will each lay about 3 vermipods containing on average 3 baby worms a week. The downside is it takes 4 months to go from vermipod to adult worm. So you'll need to let your worm farm become established before you use it as a food source.
 
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