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Well, the ground is frozen and the earthworms, woodlice and slugs that my salamander loves to eat have all temporarily vanished. Any suggestions for readily available alternatives?
 
Hi

I would go for crickets as an alternative, but dust them with a suitable mineral supplement everry so often, or alternatively give the crickets dry cat food to eat so they are gut loaded before you feed them to your fires.
You can get worms online, but i found them to be of a real bad quality, and my fires wouldnt eat them. And i wouldnt bother again.
I have to admit that i have a big tub of worms, that i add to when i dig gardens, the tub is kept in the garage, so i can feed them when i need to.

Although the ground is frozen worms can still be found, although i does depend on just how frozen.!!!

Good luck


Ben
 
You could go to your local fishing tackle/bait shop and get worms, bloodworms, and maggots, that's my plan for the winter months until I can build my wormery in the spring.
 
I would make a earthworm culture with the ones you can buy in a fish store.

It is the easiest culture I have. You can find info in the food subforum.
 
I didn't think you could culture regular fat grey earth worms that you buy from the store and I hear most salamanders hate the little red wigglers. . .

or so I thought.
 
as every one above has said, bait worms do the trick, and if you really have trouble aclimating them onto crickets then wax worms make a good (very) temporary diet.
 
lilacdragon7 said:
I didn't think you could culture regular fat grey earth worms that you buy from the store and I hear most salamanders hate the little red wigglers. . .

or so I thought.
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That's sort-of true. You can't culture regular gray earthworms or canadian nightcrawlers. However, most newts will eat compost worms (even red wigglers) if the worms are home-grown and served whole, not chopped. From a growing culture, it's easy to pick out small ones that don't need chopping. Also, the so-called "euros" or "belgian nightcrawlers" are less stinky than red wigglers and are equally culturable. My "euros" are the best cultured food I have ever had. They are an incredible growth-booster for many of my small newts.
 
Thanks for that info Jennewt, I have been wondering myself. I do have alot of redworms in my backyard that seem to grow like weeds. :happy:
 
So what's the lowest temperature worms can be kept at, the warmest, the best? The only reason I haven't gotten back to you, Jen, about the worms is because I have yet to fix my laundry room which is the only plausible place to put the wormery right now. Will the washer and dryer create too much vibration for this... Otherwise I'm going to have a bucket of worms hangin out on the floor by my computer...

I'm VERY interested in getting some of those wood lice... but I guess that brings me to the question. Is it possible for the woodlice to escape and infest my home?

Thanks Sara
 
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