Be careful to always cover the veggies or it will smell. If you use fruit,
you might draw fruit flies, which can be nasty (unless you capture and kill
them for fish food!)
I last used a 15 gallon tote that has a 2 piece lid attached to it. I went
on line and ordered a pound of Eisinia foetida (sp?). The price was pretty
good.
I used the worms as to supplement feeding for eight 4-6 inch sunfish and a
55 gallon tank full of darters.
It would be pretty easy to scale up by adding several totes of worms if you
needed to do so.
I have finally gotten around to restarting this project here in KY. I'm
tired of buying blackworms in the mail.
Geoff Kimber
Lexington, ky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Crail, Todd" <tcrail_at_northshores.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:42 PM
Subject: RE: worm bins was Re: NANFA-- nightcrawlers: predators?
> Geoff,
>
> You just made my day. I can't stand throwing away all that prime worm
food, all wrapped up in plastic so it doesn't degrade at the landfill, just
because Sarah didn't trust me. I was thinking too big. Now if it stinks,
the worst thing that can happen is I just pick it up and take it out of the
house, and she was okay with that :)
>
> Did you drill the bins at all for aeration? And do you just use newspaper
as the base? What's your water volume?
>
> I'd take this off list, but I think this is an excellent way for NANFAns
to practice conservation and make some fine fish food... Not to mention all
those wonderful castings for planting next spring!
>
> Thanks!!! :)
> Todd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geoff and julie kimber
> Sent: Tue 10/1/2002 9:29 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Cc:
> Subject: worm bins was Re: NANFA-- nightcrawlers: predators?
>
>
>
> Todd -
>
> I have had good results just using plastic totes for worm bins. I usually
> raise red worms as they don't need a tunnel system like nightcrawlers do
and
> they also chow down very quickly on veggie scraps from the kitchen.
>
> Geoff Kimber
> Lexington,KY
>
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