Things Needed
African nightcrawlersare voluminous producers of worm casting , which are body wastes used to enrich compost and grunge for craw output . African nightcrawlersneed the same care as any other worm genus , requiring five fundamental essential : right bedding , worm feedstock , wet , aeration and contain temperature .
Step 1
Drill 20 to 50 eighth - inch cakehole around the top 4 inch of each 5 - gal pail to provide batch of aeration for your African nightcrawlers . The yap also will allow you to stack the pail without cut off O to the worms , which breathe from the bedding through their skins .
Step 2
Measure out 1 pound of peat moss on a kitchen scale and put it in one of the 5 - gal buckets . Sprinkle the peat moss stratum with 1 pint of H2O . Allow the water to engage into the stratum for about 15 mo .
Step 3
position 10 African nightcrawlers on the damp peat moss layer and then add another 1 - Sudanese pound stratum of peat moss over the worms . Sprinkle this layer with another pint of water and allow it to absorb for about 15 minute . recur footstep 1 through 3 for as many buckets as you take to contain all of your worm .
Step 4
Write down the pounds of bedding you put in each bucket so you could calculate how much water to use for each bucket maintenance cycle . Also immortalise the number of worm in each bucketful to set up for adding the feedstock .
Step 5
render your worms a feedstock , either manure or okara , on top of the bedding in each bucket . Using a lasting inglorious marker , draw a horizontal mark where the feedstock layer reside against the side of the bucketful , and use this mark to diagram your worms ' rate of phthisis . You in general will need to allow 1 cup of feedstock per 20 worms in each bucketful . Sprinkle 1 qt . of body of water over the feedstock to start its absorption into the bedding .
Step 6
Check the moisture level of your worms ' have it away in each bucketful doubly a calendar week . The bedding should clump together when you light squeeze it in your fist . If it does n’t plunk , it ’s clock time to water . First check the feedstock level and if it ’s downcast , make full it to the note you drew . assert that grade of feed consistently . Then disperse on the top layer 1 dry pint of H2O for every pound of bedding you point in the pail .
Tip
African nightcrawlers are springy enough to plow temperatures from 38 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit . Keep your worm in a lieu away from more uttermost temperature for the healthiest and most active worm .
Warning
Never use feedstock that contains oil colour , grease or meats . These substance surface the tegument of the worms , suffocating them .
