Breeding Red Worms for your fish

Thanks for the very informative research Tankmaster, just like larch I also breed my own earthworms for feeding my fish and using as bait for fishing. But I think your missing or misunderstanding what he is trying to say in his posts regarding sunlight and the translucent containers. Of course his first post regarding sunlight was indeed incorrect, but worms are tolerant of indirect sunlight while in the ground. I also utilize some translucent bins for my worms without any issues, as the worms generally don’t feed/breed on the edges or bottom of the bins depending on how deep your substrate is, so even if the bin should get direct sunlight it wont affect them.

Kind Regards

Stephan Prinsloo

 

Thanks Stephan took the words right out of my mouth! Just a quick update, it is going rather well in worm land as they now have laid even more eggs and the first batch have finally hatched so there are tiny worms everywhere.

So just to show you guys how I go about using some of my kitchen waste as food for my worms, I had a couple of banana peels that I kept instead of throwing them away took a sharp kitchen knife and shopped it up into smaller pieces. Then I mix it into the ground which also helps to improves the speed of decomposition.

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Since people asked for an update on my red worm breeding here is two pictures I took this afternoon excuse the quality borrowing my camera to someone so I am stuck with my cellphone:

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Since I got new Oscar fish that aren't big enough to eat the worms just yet it gave them a welcome break to breed and restock and with the current high temperatures the speed at which they feed has increased also it gives off a "lovely" smell now so I keep them outside now.

In the second picture you can see some fungus growing in the ground, I try and till the soil every now and then but due to the high nutritional content of the ground they grow back overnight and it seems to add content to the ground than rather taking away. The green you see is the un-eaten leaves left by the silkworms, every time I clean the silkworm box everything thats left un-eaten gets thrown into my worm box.

 

Ran out of breeding stock for my worms so not feeding them to my Oscar till I buy new stock will give them a chance to breed again.