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barrett
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Hi, I have a wormbed that I am trying to culture the nightcrawlers I got from the convenience store. I don't know what kind they are but, if I had to guess, I would say...Canadian?
Actually the wormbed is a three tiered system with two large styrafoam coolers(10gal?)in which, I have about 15-20 worms apiece, and a small(3gal?)cooler in which to put any babies I find.
They are food for my chinese firebellies so they large nightcrawlers tend to be too big even when cut(hence the need for the babies.
I feed the crawlers 2-3weeks approx 1/2c of chopped vegi scraps and the pellets that are for the newts because the newts won't eat them. then for the babies I feed only the pellets to gut load them for the newts.They are all housed using some paper-based worm bedding I got at Wall-mart and I keep them outside in a wooden box. They seem to stay pretty cool even on hot days.
Only once in a great long while,however, do I find any babies and it is usually one lone baby at that so...all of the small worms I feed my newts I must hunt for outside. It is going to be winter soon and that will no longer be an option. All that will be available are the large diameter crawlers unless I can get them to produce more offspring.
Please tell me what I can do; aside from stocking up on wild caught smallsies.
Bmurph
Actually the wormbed is a three tiered system with two large styrafoam coolers(10gal?)in which, I have about 15-20 worms apiece, and a small(3gal?)cooler in which to put any babies I find.
They are food for my chinese firebellies so they large nightcrawlers tend to be too big even when cut(hence the need for the babies.
I feed the crawlers 2-3weeks approx 1/2c of chopped vegi scraps and the pellets that are for the newts because the newts won't eat them. then for the babies I feed only the pellets to gut load them for the newts.They are all housed using some paper-based worm bedding I got at Wall-mart and I keep them outside in a wooden box. They seem to stay pretty cool even on hot days.
Only once in a great long while,however, do I find any babies and it is usually one lone baby at that so...all of the small worms I feed my newts I must hunt for outside. It is going to be winter soon and that will no longer be an option. All that will be available are the large diameter crawlers unless I can get them to produce more offspring.
Please tell me what I can do; aside from stocking up on wild caught smallsies.
Bmurph