Tips For Raising Grindal Worms?

[Mikaila31]

I bought a starter culture off ebay a couple months ago and i'm not having much sucess at raising them. I have 3 cultures going at the moment 2 are a coulpe months old and are in 1/4 gallon tupperware containers. The thrid a started just last night it is in a much larger container. I'm feeding them cat treats that have chicken as the main ingredient. Also a use magic worm bedding from wallmart.
So if anyone has any experience raiseing these, do you have any tips that could help?

Thanks,
Mikaila31

 

[jayjay]

I used soil and 'redy brek' to feed them.

 

[BigC]

Keeping your Grindalworm

Temp
72° - 84° (F) is ideal; 74° - 84° (F) is the optimum
Breeding
For breeding you will need the following:
• A Container; e.g. an ice-cream tub or similar with holes punched in the lid.
• Media (Potting Compost); I use Irish Moss peat with a little garden lime added, as worms do not like acid soil.
• Food; I use a smooth oat cereal, made up to a consistency of thick cream.
Place your compost in your container to about one inch deep. Spray this until it is nice and damp, but not soaking wet. Place your starter in a depression in the centre of the container. Gently level this and add 1/2 a teaspoon of food to begin with. Gradually add a little more food as the culture uses more and begins to grow. Spread this further out in small round blobs over the media. Take care not to overfeed!!
Your culture should be ready to harvest in about two weeks.
Harvesting
Wet a piece of glass or plastic, sprinkle this with a little food (oat cereal can be used but I use crushed up fish food .. Place this on the media, food face down. Prop one end on a bottle cap or lean it against the side of the container. Next day the worms can be simply rinsed off the side of the glass. Gently rake the culture before feeding.
The worms can be harvested daily. If production starts to tail off just start another culture using a drop of your media.