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**MackBranon** · 03-08-2012, 02:40 PM

Using the worms for bait and their waste as organic fertilizer. I would like to raise the nightcrawlers for personal use ie not paying $3.69/doz, as well as maybe selling to the local bait shops with the side benefit of having excellent fertilizer.

nightcrawlers (the big worms) have the reputation among worm-farmers of spending most of their energy trying to escape a container, if they are kept in a container.

red-worms seem to be happy in a container (if they have the right mix of food, moisture, grit/fine sand, etc.). they will just sit in a 5 gallon bucket and eat, reproduce, and make worm castings.

03-08-2012, 02:40 PM	#7
MackBranon Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 421 Senior Member	Using the worms for bait and their waste as organic fertilizer. I would like to raise the nightcrawlers for personal use ie not paying $3.69/doz, as well as maybe selling to the local bait shops with the side benefit of having excellent fertilizer. nightcrawlers (the big worms) have the reputation among worm-farmers of spending most of their energy trying to escape a container, if they are kept in a container. red-worms seem to be happy in a container (if they have the right mix of food, moisture, grit/fine sand, etc.). they will just sit in a 5 gallon bucket and eat, reproduce, and make worm castings.
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