White Worms for food

[Tamberav]

We have 14 cultures total, this one impressed me this morning while we were feeding. We have gotten so good at these now, we started selling all of our excess on Etsy.

Do you ever rinse the cultures? Mine seem to be doing really well but the bottom seems to have water/liquid in it and is smells yeasty but that’s is ofc from the food

I am not sure if I am supposed to rinse and drain them every so often.

 

[Snoopdog]

Do you ever rinse the cultures? Mine seem to be doing really well but the bottom seems to have water/liquid in it and is smells yeasty but that’s is ofc from the food

I am not sure if I am supposed to rinse and drain them every so often.

We rinse one if they crash, or in the process of crashing. Normally it is a day after we hit critical mass, the culture in my picture is likely getting close to crashing. When they crash basically the worms liquify and put off a god awe full smell. Another reason to rinse one is if they get mites, we do not often get mites but you can get mites all kinds of ways, we are almost certain mites can come in on the food, like bread.

Our process is this during a rinse.We will rinse one under tap water for a few hours, very light stream, not enough to lose the worms. Then we leave the container with maybe a half an inch of water above the soil. The live worms will rise to the top to breath, we will then put a piece of mesh in. The live worms will attach to the mesh. We then take that mesh and move it to a new culture with fresh baked soil. The live worms will leave the mesh and burrow down in the soil to avoid the light. We repeat this process until no worms come out of the old container.

 

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