How To Breed Your Own Fishing Worms..EASY..MONEY SAVER!!!!!
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2016
- How-To episode for you guys today! In this one I'll show you how I've been breeding and raising my own worms. I don't know about you guys but I spend a lot of money on worms for fishing every month. Not exaggerating when I say I possibly spend $100 a year. I use worms for bait fishing, Bass, and some Catfish species. Since it's so easy and cheap to make a worm breeder box, I decided to try it out and its really paid off only 2 months in. All you need is a container with a lid, preferably one that has latches to keep it closed and prevent your worms from getting out. Some soil, I use Miracle Grow's Nature's Care Organic Potting Mix. And Worms. This $10 investment can really pay off if you do it right.
Some key points to remember to make this project successful is:
1.Make sure your soil is always damp and moist. Worms need moisture to survive and keep happy.
2.Make sure they have plenty of food. I use cricket feed from Petsmart/Petco. $4 and will feed them for months. You can use old vegetables too.
3.Chose your soil wisely. A lot of commercial gardening soils and potting soils have harmful chemicals that will harm and kill your worms.
4. Choose your Worm breed wisely. Some breeds like Canadian Earthworms need to be cold and pretty much refrigerated to stay alive. I use big Red Worms and they do fine in warmer climates.
5.It takes time. This will not happen overnight. It took me a month before I started to notice worm eggs/cocoons and little babies. But once they started to get comfortable my box has cocoons and little worms everywhere. My population of 60 worms to start off has tripled in only a couple months!
Follow those steps and you should be fine. Breeding and raising these guys is not hard. If you find your worm box isn't producing I can guarantee It's because you have one of those 5 points wrong. So hopefully this can help you guys out and save you some money because it sure did for me!!!!
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Great video I did exactly what you said and I have been doing it for just over a month and I can see a lot of babies and a lot of eggs thank you
Great to hear! Thx for sharing!
Thank you for your reply, I'm raising 15 baby bluegills to hopefully do aquaponics with them. Looking for alternative ways to feed them a little more self-sustaining. The idea of raising worms was excellent. I attempted to raise crickets and did not have any success at all. It was somewhat the feeding, when I saw the baby worms I was very excited. Thanks again
You can take this set-up even further and incorporate calci-worms/pheonix worms and springtails. The calci-worms become black soldier flies, which you can use to breed more calci-worms. The spring tails will eat any mold that pops up. You can feed the colony veggie scraps too, but don't give them anything you wouldn't want your fish to eat. And it makes great soil to add to your garden
@@rocki_bb You're the only human who knows my secret Marijuana super soil.
FYI, this is just the base soil.
@@staytight6340 you just made my day!
Dude, turn it into an actual vermicomposter. Toss em your kitchen scraps and some gerbil hay (they love timothy hay), the colony will freaking EXPLODE. Worms self regulate their colonies. Meaning they'll breed like rabbits as long as they have enough room and food source. If there is not enough of either they will stop breeding and only mate when the eldest gen is about to die off (it's crazy brilliant). People commonly make the mistake of thinking they are eating the scraps, but in fact they are eating primarily two things: the bacteria that is actually rotting/breaking down the organic matter, and the waste product that bacteria is producing (the notorious rotting garbage smell). Slurp slurp! Bury the scraps a couple inches down and toss some soil over top to contain any smell and they'll LOVE you for it! It takes a LONG time for that cricket dust to create the bacteria they like to eat. But like anything, they'll eat their bedding and whatever you put in that's organic until something better comes along. Let's not mention the value (both financially and personal use) of worm castings for plants/trees. Little trick, if you want to collect some cocoons, lay a piece of white bread (yes it has to be white) on top and leave for a couple days. They seem to like to scrape their cocoons off onto the bread while they're eating the sugars and yeast. Another trick, bury half a brown banana and wait a week, come back and the skin will be filled with all ages of worms where the banana meat once was. An easy way to collect since banana is one of their faves (I suspect it has something to do with the ethylene gas it emits).
Ok, so I'm a worm nerd in case you hadn't realized by my lil novella here. Somehow I was watching vids about terrariums and you were in my suggested feed...so, being the vermicomposter dork I am, I had to share. Good luck and compost everything!
@Surplus Firearm Yup...I probably should have looked at the date of the video, eh? LOL! Here I am trying to share trade secrets with an experienced person...Pffft! LOL! Cheers!
Great info thank you I started using scraps lettuce these things like that coffee grounds to feed my worms they seem to be doing really well. I am getting mold on the top of my dirt do you have any idea what would cause this
What causes the mold is not enough air flow if it's sitting on top. No fear! Toss a little loose dirt on top & they'll find it & tear it up. That mold is a lovely snack for them & they will eat it up. Just mind that the mold doesn't outgrow your colony, stir it up to get some air to it if it's more than the colony can eat in a reasonable amount of time. If it's not the food molding & your actual soil then give the bin a good tossing to aerate it & let it dry out a bit. Adding powdered dolomite lime or eggshells will neutralize any souring if you've got your bin too wet.
Mold is fungi not bacteria, just saying
@@arrhazes8198 I didn't explain clearly and thanks for pointing that out! The fungi will be eaten by the bacteria that the worms will devour. AND they will eat the mold as well LOL!
I am a superworm breeder. One advice: Make sure to only make holes on the side of the container at the top. The reason why you don't do it on the lid is because dusk, pollen, bacteria, and fungi spores can get in. When holes are on the side, this is dramatically reduced.
you're wrong.
Dusk... Uhhh I don't think I'd take advice from someone who calls dust "dusk" 😂😂
A mealworm farm that is basic and has no humidity at all (like my farm) mold will not be a problem, a basic mealworm farm is oats/bran/cornmeal, a food dish, and some things for climbing like egg carton. This is all you need besides food for a mass producing farm
Shouldn't you not put holes on top of your trying to keep out debris? I would think bottom and sides. Or maybe just use a filter ..
Just put some micropore tape over the holes
I never knew worms had cocoons. I guess I never thought about worm reproduction. I always just thought they.. appeared. Lol
Lol me neither till I did some research!
I feed my worms crack they jump off the hook and drag the fish onto the bank
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Ever seen the episode of King Of The Hill where Hank unknowingly buys crack thinking it’s fishing bait and crushes bass on it? Great show
@@kyleholbrook5802 yeah funny episode
If I find out my worms aren't breeding, I play a little Marvin Gaye music for them at a low volume. :) :) :)
I was just thinking out loud that some Ed Sheeran would do the trick!
Bahahahaha someone should do this for a science fair project
Hahahaha
Berry White 😉
@@greatlakezgirl649 Barry
great video, I use a bigger container for my nightcrawlers. if you want them to breed more often try feeding them lettuce puree mixed with coffee grounds or a little molasses
My husband and I have just started fishing with friends. Having our own access to worms will be a plus. Thanks for the video... we'll give it a try.
Let me know how it goes!
Bro! best worm farm video I've ever seen. Easy and to the point. Too many try to make rocket science out of it and that's what has kept me from doing it. Great Job. I only use worms maybe once a month, and use less than six per outing so this may just work great for me. Thanks, and keep up the "How to's"
+J0Gu7 Ha hey thanks! Thats what I tried to set out to do for this project. Cheap and easy. And not to mention all the future money saved from not having to buy worms at $4 a can each every week! Thats over $200 not including tax!!!!! And more how to's coming!
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+Arizona/Arkansas Fishing interesting, never tried anything like this
+unoriginal doge memes Ive been wanting to try this out for awhile but never got around to it. Now I'm like why in the world did I not try it earlier lol. For people who use worms for fishing a lot its a no brainer to make one.
***** cool I will probably try this
+unoriginal doge memes let me know how it goes for you!
***** ok
I have been wanting to get something like this started for a long time and I believe going to start this weekend ! Thanks for the kick in the shorts ! I will keep you posted on this new adventure of mine ! Thanks again , 😎 Micheal Kinworthy !
Awesome! Let me know!
I use avocados and heaps of eggs and hatchlings through each of my worm bins. I drill my holes and it's place in my garden bed keeping safe from the weather etc. Keen to try your method it seems to make perfect sense. Thank you for sharing
Alright guys! With this video exploding in popularity recently with over 250,000 views and growing, I need your help! What are some more How-To videos you'd like to see me try? Let me know below and whatever has the most response I'll do!
Arizona Fish
Arizona Fishing HOW TO BREED HUMANS
How about maintaining the worm bin? How often to feed? How to separate the worm egg cases or if you need to at all?
I live in Arkansas too
Arizona Fishing how about how to shock worms out of the ground
Great job! I am raising the same worms, they are actually European Night Crawlers. I like them since they don't require refrigeration and the fish like em too!
absolutely the perfect explanation especiallyfor someone just starting out. I have been tired of buying worms for years so this will help out tremendously thank you very much
Just another update the first worm tote that I started is doing exceptionally well I fed my bluegills 24 smaller babies last weekend, last night I pulled out another 10. And still there's a lot left. Lots of babies and lots of eggs! The Second tote that I started I am starting to see quite a few eggs now the worm seem to be doing good they're a lot bigger when I first bought them they're eating. This week I just started a third tote with nightcrawlers. We will see how this goes I'm excited. I am also looking into making some living soil to grow some veggies as well and use the worms. Thanks again! Bluegill seem to like the worms they're getting more used to them.
AWESOME!
Great video and thanks for the info! I usually fish with plastic worms, but I wanted to try some real worms and see what happens. I went to walmart and bought a cup of the big red worms. Then I was wondering could I grow more worms from these worms and I found your video! I'm going to definitely try this and see what happens! Thanks again and I'll keep you posted!
I have 3 pets that go through 40 worms a week, so this is absolutely amazing for other things than fishing.
Awesome!
I would like to try this for my Axolotl.
Emily Moore know what you mean, I breed worms for fishing and my 4 box turtle's
HamsterLuv7777 You can get a Axolotl for a pet? Or is my memory failing me again?
Yes you can.
I LOVE IT !!! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
Thanks! I really like how you show step by step, I am def starting this project tomorrow! Thanks !
Thanks man! Let me know how it works for you!
Fayetteville here! Thank you, I'm going to use this to feed my Sonoran Desert Toads
Awesome! Let me know how to goes!
That Cricket Food looks Great, I am going to give it a try. On Amazon right now, it's $2.69 with Free Prime Delivery.
Nice!
The Results are in... The Worms are going Crazy over this stuff... OMG... Amazon has a 6 Pound container listed. I am sure going to order for my Worm Farm... I do this for the Compost. I am going to try a Worm "Tower" in my Raised Garden using a 5 Gallon Home Depot Bucket to see if the Worms stay and not escape me.
Awesome! Glad it works for you too!
Where on amazon
Mitchy, unless you do a lot of fishing or have voracious vermiphiles as pets you will experience severe overcrowding in a few months. I started out with a Rubbermade 37 gallon.tub filled with a foot of crumpled moist cardboard, newsprint and a thn layer of peat on top (with a light sprinkling of sand for grit), I added 2 dozen red worms, each 1 dozen from a different bait shop (genetic diversity) plus a few I found in the compost pile. I fed them layer mash and some pulverized egg shells. In a few months I had more worms than bedding. Transfered a bunch to a second prepared tub which shortly became overcrowed. In less than a year I have been giving worms away to maintain a semblence of population control, and the old bedding is an excellent fertilizer/potting soil. The excess make an excellent chum
Great video Brother. I followed exactly what you showed and it works like a Champ. Thank You.
Awesome!
Nice !!! I will be doing this for my oranic garden
Awesome! Let me know how it goes!
You guys are awesome! Almost a year later and this has almost 50,000 views and 500+ Likes!!!!
Arizona/Arkansas Fishing Sir I want to thank you on behalf of my youngest son and his friends. They found your method now they are making a little bit of money selling their worms to places that sell bait including to me because I own a small sporting goods store.
They also do leeches and wax worms. How they do it I don't keeping up with school work and doing this. Plus they make their own plastic baits. The only thing I kind of disapprove of they set most of their stuff up at my home. But I guess it's a lot better than sitting around playing video games.
Man, tha'ts so awesome to hear! Congrats to them, love getting comments like this!!!!
Arizona/Arkansas Fishing Thanks again the only problem they have is with leeches. That's a seasonal item. But everything else is year round. Other sporting goods stores buy from them. They good prices from them but one guy tries to low ball them. So I am there when he comes.
Arizona Fishing so much for 50k views ay?? Awesome video. Definitely gonna give it a try!!
Goodness haha what a throwback! Let me know how it goes!
Great advice thanks .I'm gonna get started soon
Fantastic video about setting up a worm farm ! I am a subscriber to you now . Love from Oklahoma 👍
If your worms are multiplying then you are doing everything right. Nice video.
Thanks man!
if you have a cheap source of calcium, you could use that and vegetable leftovers (like banana peels) as worm food instead of cricket food.
True!
This video is great! I am going to buy the supplies tomorrow! You’ve earned a like and a new subscriber!
Thanks man!
Good job, starting mine tomorrow. Like the way you set yours up, mine will be exactly the same. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and Friday I'm going fishing at lake Collins ca. Lg lake that has breeding pins in the center and stock every 3 or 4 months with salmon, trout, blue gill and others. Thanks for the worm fram.
I typically find plenty in my yard for a fishing trip whenever I want. I never considered farming them, but this looks neat.
It something cheap and easy to do lol, Im pretty happy with it!
I got a bunch of old rugs at yard sales and put them in the back yard.
Damn son
Smart asf
Very helpful. and easy to do. Big thumbs Up
I have been watching the video when it came out but I just have to say this a a great video and I am a 12 year old fisher thank you
This was just waht i needed, great video!
Though...im not fishing with these worms, I'm gonna breed them to feed my turtle, WAY Cheaper than having to buy that same 3$ can of live worms every week.
Awesome!
Where do you find live worms for $3?? They are WAY more than that here (in Washington State)
@@Freenix101 bait shops, or you can find free ones on a rainy day
I got some at walmart which is the only place near me that carries live bait.. Not even our sporting goods stores have live bait 😯 they were around $5 for a container of 18
I want to do this so bad, you can use the worm castings in your garden too. Fish and veggies lol
On my way to candian tire to buy the supplies, got some left over nightcrawlers from a great summer of fishing, exited for next summer already!
I asked about how often you feed them. I found it in the comments. Thank you, great video. I'm going to do it.
Nice lol let me know how it works for you!
People with aquariums should pay attention, this is way better than feeder (diseased) Goldfish. much healthier.
THIS TOO!
I came here specifically for this!
Really for anybody with fish or reptiles. I cant imagine how much somebody who owns a lizard or something has to spend on worms or what have you.
So much better than feeder fish for sure.
i live in huntsville, alabama and i have started growing the big red worms also. i have mine in a large tote black i used peat moss as the dirt and if have been giving mine the cricket food that they love plus i feed mine pureed fruit and vegs which they also love. i also have a red wiggler bed and i feed them the same they have a growing frenzy since i have been giving them the cricket food.
NICE!
Great video! I'm going to try it out this week. My husband and I just got a cabin on Crescent Lake in Florida. We aren't there all the time, about 15 days a month, so I'm going to try to supplement with some eggshells and bananas while we are gone. I may have to ask my neighbor to worm sit... 😉
Nice! Hope it works for you!
I grow worms for my garden and fishing and my setup is a little more indepth than yours, but this is perfect for someone just wanting a simple, cheap way to grow them for bait. There's a kazillion videos on the "best way" to grow worms. If someone's after a simple, easy, cheap way to grow worms for bait, this is the best video I've seen for that. Awesome job and thanks for not going insane on it.
What do u do for gardening?
great video. I used to do this as a boy . plain cornmeal works too. Also if you take it outside in the Shady place you can make like a compost bin with vegetable scraps and eggshells and add some nightcrawlers and you would be surprised at how many worms you can get and how they will eat that compost thanks a lot
Thats awesome, thanks man!
MR. FUSON Cornmeal to feed the worms? Just making a bin today and trying to keep it as cheap as possible.
tbh eggs shell is thee best thing lol we use eggs 24:7
good idea if you fish that much. good video
Thanks man!
Thank you for this. I will be doing this to have a supply for my axolotls!
This is really helpful because I am moving to the boonies and need to start breeding for my pacman frog
So this has been out a while now. Just wondering how many of these bins you would recommend doing to be able to cycle though without cleaning out the worms? Or will one bin produce enough worms? I was just thinking of setting up 2 or 3 bins or is that overkill?
I did this but caught my worms instead. I started with 50 and ended with 200
Nice!
I set mine up in a old bathtub in a dark barn. To keep it moist I used wet newspaper. I started out using soil that had worm eggs bought from worm farmer. I didn't have to buy food it appears that the newspaper was used as food. We had rabbits and put the droppings in the tub with the worms. They were healthy and very active and caught lots of fish using them.
Jack Pelster how long did it take?
krys d you mad it sound like a scary movie
Thanks! I'm gonna try this to have a constant flow of feed for my aquariums!
Great vid , thanks for the tips, $10 6yrs ago, $60 today.... but still worth it...
have been doing this for years. Good and always fresh worms
For sure!
We’re getting ready to give this a try, it looks great. We live in Wyoming, very dry! It can get really cold in the winter (-15). What’s the lowest temps you think we can grow them at? We were thinking of housing them in the warmer months on a shelf in our large chicken coop, and bring into the house during the colder months, if needed. Does the bin stink bad? Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all!
Nice! They enjoy cold temps for sure they but remain more active when its warmer, and sounds like you have a good plan there. Ive never encountered any stink at all!
Always wondered what the ring was on Nightcrawlers. Great video very informative, going to try a basement container for non-stinky veggie vermicompost and Pet frog food.
Do they require a lighting cycle truly or could they be left a majority of the time with lights on?
Thx!, Well in my mind, its pretty dark in the soil lol so you should be good!
Well ... thank you for your help. Nice video.
Good video you covered pretty much everything
Thanks boss!
Great video in 6 months you can divide your colony into two unless you fish a lot.. I like sorting juvenile from adults and put the juveniles in the old bedding just add to it because of all the unhatched worm pods. They love 50/50 yellow cornmeal and blended dried old bread, a little cheaper than cricket food and most veggie or fruit waste. Bedding PH is pretty important too. I love using a big box store bucket and cut a 6" hole in the center of the lid and I drill a ¼ hole close to the bottom and screw a plug in it for emergency excess water removal (drain)
Nice!
I use shredded News paper with a little and feed em corn meal.
Then put organic trash in it
this is never a BAD thing to learn to get food to eat & this seems as simple as1-2-3 😱
Nice work im going to try this👍
I'm doing this to feed my ant colonies XDDDDDD
Do you have issues with mold or fungus? How long does it take to get full grown worms from this start? Thanks!
thanks for your reply i will keep trying
You did it the right way ! $$$$$ ..I just purchased some Canadian Nightcrawlers..My worms are looking amazing . Do what works for yourself. Great video Thank You.
Thanks man!
@@Arizonafishing My worms are looking amazing ! I may not fish with them. Bleeding them..Use the babies for bait , after they grow ! Thank you. I will be waiting for your next video..
@@Arizonafishing Update ! My Canadian night crawlers are doing just fine . They love the vegetables , green peppers , white potatoe skins..
soak some news paper with water and set it on top of the worms
wow and awesome. we have fishing worms in our yard that my grandma thought they were snakes (7-8 inches long) I may try this....
Haha nice! Give it a whirl!
+Arizona/Arkansas Fishing we found a dead one today. they are under some logs. When I get the stuff, I'll catch some
nicely done sir,L
keep it simple. Thanks
Thanks man!
Hi Arizona Fishing,
Hope you are keeping well. I am enjoying watching the wormery video, It's great to see the building of the wormery and with the great clear talk through you give, its very encouraging.
May I ask if you have a problem with moisture in the wormery, I noticed 'no holes' were drilled in the base of the container?
Wishing you Tight Lines
Guy
I just started mine today! I was wondering how often do I have to change the potting mix? Thanks.
I do once a year!
@@Arizonafishing Thanks! Also, my worms aren't eating. I put very minimum amount of food, in the last 2 weeks I put in 1 ripe banana, no skin and very light cricket diet you mentioned. The food keeps becoming moldy, I know it's not a problem but I'm just worried why they aren't eating.
Arizona Fishing day
Hey man try newspaper. The shop I grew up getting worms from alwayse had them in newspapers and they were the best I ever had bought to the day.
Did they ever replace the paper?
Good question. I'm not sure where we bought them was was only a few miles from one of the biggest trought fishing spots in Oregon. And I alone would go out there 2 or 3 days a week in the summer. So I imagine hundreds of people coming through each month they needed restocked before newspaper was bad.
Nice video. Keep it up. Keep us updated on the worms.
+Kongmeng Vang Thanks and will do!
Thanks bro big money saver👌👍💯
Thanks man!
My worms are already starting to mate!
AWESOME!
Worm sex!
How often do you have to feed them with the cricked stuff? If I were to feed them compost how often would I have to feed them?
I feed them once a day or whenever the old food is gone
My setup was a little larger but kept completely outside. Just posted a walk through video. Hope all is still well with yours!
Awesome video! Thank you!
Thanks!
I raise nightcrawlers the same way.
Nice!
Hmm, Great video, but why buy food when you can feed them vegetable scraps?
Thanks, reason being I don't have a lot of food scraps laying around, so I can justify the $5 to last me a few months. But if you do have enough to sustain a population it'd work!
You don't add any paper or shredded newspaper on top? Everyone does, is there a reason why? Thank you. Great video by the way👍
i feed vegetable scraps, but because i dont have much scraps, the worms growth are very slow.
@@annmantuzzi1012 Actually not everyone does. I don't. It's terrible for my vermicomposter in fact. I live in the PNW so the humidity is REALLY high. The newspaper stays wet too long and traps moisture in the bedding which makes it become VERY sour (and not a happy place for red wigglers). Then I find myself having to add more dolomite lime and eggshells than I would if I'd not added a top layer of paper. My worms VERY RARELY get any kind of paper products, even inside their bedding for these reasons. I may toss a paper towel in every now and then, but I usually put it in their pre-rotted food I keep for them. The only paper they get on the regular is my coffee filters, again torn and added to food mixture. If I still lived in the desert, lying paper or cardboard on top would definitely be the way to go.
Not everyone eats a lot of vegetables and it would be easier to spend 5dollars on food that last 4 months
Good video.. I am going to try this.
Thx man, Let me know how it works!
Thanks for info... It's a must try thing.....
Thanks man!
When feeding a worm bin don't use any GMO products like corn or soy ect, might effect the microbes in the castings
+David PhoTWENTY Alright...interesting
David PhoTWENTY cool
No, actually it won't affect them. I've fed compost and worms GMO stuff, plenty of times and it never affected anything at all. The microbes were healthy and fed on it and the worms and castings were just fine. The biggest threat to microbes is actually salty fertilizers (like Miracle Gro) or "organic" insecticides, like Copper Sulphate. Copper sulphate is one of the few organic insecticides approved for use by the FDA on organic crops and it is highly toxic to things in the earth and aquatic life. Far more toxic than Glyphosate or Monsanto's Round Up could ever be. Just because something is considered "organic" does not make it safe. Nor does something being GMO, mean it's dangerous or inferior. It's been around long enough now, that we know there are no ill effects from GMO or Glyphosate.
I grind up my soybeans to a fine powder and makes it very lightly good coffee grounds I have some very strong healthy and very big earthworms
How often do you change the bedding out?
Personally Ive yet to change the bedding out in almost a year here in April because it still looks "clean" and has no smell. Im guessing I'll change the bedding here in April just to refresh the box!
Thanks for the quick response!
I just bought some European Crawlers to do just what you're doing. A couple weeks ago we drove for 2 hours around Orlando looking for worms. Everyone was out.
The potting mix I bought is organic and has wood bits, dirt, etc in it. Your video appears to show that yours is the same way so i'm guessing it's ok.
Thanks Again
Update ! My worms are looking amazing Thank you so much again..
Nice! Im glad they are working out for you!!!
My 5 year old just started doing this with a bunch of left over night crawlers from the store. The hardest part is keeping him out of the worm box. Super easy to do
Nice!
I just pick mine
Good man
I'm in Southeast Louisiana, couldn't I just use some topsoil from the woods behind my house instead of the bagged soil?
You can try! Haven't used it so Im not sure
Where did you get the plastic container and soil from? My local Walmart didn’t carry either.
Got Mine from walmart, but Home Depot carries both as well!
Scotty Mack , sure you can. I mix top soil, peat moss & manure. I bought a box of bait & dumped in. Cover dirt mix with a thick layer of Hay, then cover that with News paper. It keeps them moist and fed. I do add plain corn meal to the surface when the hay gets gone, then add another layer of hay. Insane amount of worms in a cpl months! I have an old freezer, with door still attached, i did take the latch off. Plus an old bath tub sunken into the ground I have plywood covering? Both are worm factories!
Only problem I've had is with moles, I think I've solved that prob with steel wool & SS mesh in the drain of the tub. That seems to have stopped the moles from coming up & in and raiding the bed. The freezer isn't a problem, moles can't get in thru the .22 cal holes shot thru the back of the freezer.
do you keep the hay and news papers wet for them to eat or dry?
If you have backyard garden you can use ground. They will never die there. I never watered for 2 months while on vacation, the Tucson heat baked them. When I put compost and water the red worms or wigglers came back to life. Feed kitchen vegetable waste or rotten food is also fine. Banana peels, eggshells, potato peels are great. You will never loose your breeders this way. I never raised them in containers, do not know why they die.
Thanks man!
Thank you so much for your video. it is very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
work with Canadian crawlers too?
Yup but they would need to be refrigerated!
+Arizona/Arkansas Fishing cool that makes sense I was wondering about that. So no refrigeration needed for reds then.
Can believe u do this
same tbh
I'm currently doing research on going bioactive with part of my mouse enclosure and one part of the clean up crew is going to be earthworms. Since the mice will occasionally be eating some of them and other cuc members, I've been looking into having colonies of each outside of the mouse enclosure, so I can occasionally put some more in there. This is super helpful for the worm part of that operation, thank you!
Please make a video! I have been thinking about bioactive mouse enclosure
@@NeanderthalDogma I'm honestly not the type to make videos and I only have half a clue what I'm doing here ^^'. But if you're interested, I've started posting on reddit about it, so far only about "renovating" the cage. A month or two ago I've ordered my isopods and put them into their breeding enclosure and also already added springtails and dwarf white isopods into the mouse enclosure, so it can start establishing. When I finally have the time, I'm going to add some more critters in the cage too. I'm planning on doing an update post once I've got around to do the finishing touches on the cage and the CUC has established more. And of course also a post when it's finally ready and new mice move in, but that's going to take a good while, not just because of the establishing but also because I currently need to worry about my rat mischief first
Great video!
Thank you!
Where can I get the big red worms from?
www.dmfbait.com/buy.php
Fishfood999 Walmart
Others are correct, I'll add any bait store to it.
Maybe not DMF brand specifically but big reds for sure
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Congrats and not a bad idea for a small business given the right circumstances.
Thanks! Super easy!!!
good stuff! might have to try this myself
+DomFishingUK Thanks bro! Saves me a lot of money!
I done this I Catch my worms and I have 5....
This is gonna be a long journey....
I have done this or I did this not I done lol
Would night crawlers work?
Yup but they would need to be refrigerated!
Daneiz King they live cool climates
wait, there is a difference between nightcrawlers and earth worms? When I buy them from walmart they are in the fridge but I just thought it's so they can slow down it's metabolism and make it last longer.
Great video very understandable 👍
Thank you!
Thank you for the tip. Nice video! God Bless ✝
No Problem!