I want to breed earthworms.

I have four axolotls which are growing very fast. I've bought alot of feeder fish for them, but one batch apparently gave my little babies horrible ancor worms, so I don't really trust the fish at my petstores any more. My guys have been fed frozen bloodworm cube every meal time for a long time now, and i want to switch over to something cheaper and bigger that my axies will enjoy. I've fed them earthworms from a bait store once before (they each got a halft worm at a time because they were too small for the whole worm), and they seemed to really enjoy it.

Now I am considering going out to the bait shop or gas station and finding a couple containers of nice looking earthworms/nighcrawlers and attempting to make them breed in a bucket of dirt, potting soil, and leafyness.. I've read that its smart to have 2 buckets, one ontop of the other, and have the top bucket have hole in the bottom for drainage so the worms dont drown..

Is breeding them just that simple, or will i just end up killing the worms or ending up with the same amount that i bought.???? Any suggestions?

There are lots of threads about culturing earthworms in this section so please read through them to see what has already been said.

Night crawlers, or to give them their scientific name, Lumbricus terrestris cannot be cultured in traditional worm bins. They are deep soil worms that have a very slow reproductive rate and cannot tolerate surface temperatures for long.

Compost worms such as Eisenia or Dendrobaena species can be cultured quite successfully in compost bins although they are not as palatable or as nutritious as Lumbricus.