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- Sat May 23, 2020 8:39 pm
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
Thanks, borrowed a shredder today and shredded a load of news paper. Given the wetness issue i had i was sparing with damping down the paper. I harvested the second wormery tray today, so gave that a good spray with water. Found quite a lot of hard kernals etc. From the hamster food which may have b...
- Fri May 22, 2020 10:04 pm
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
I’ve harvested the bottom tray from my principal wormery. Interestingly there were a lot of worms in that tray but they were principally on the edges and on the base rather than within the layer. Probably transferred over a couple of hundred worms, of which 20 or so seemed to possibly be unhealthy. ...
- Thu May 21, 2020 6:18 pm
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
Im using predominantly Brown cardboard as a carbon source, the are some glue that seemed to being used on packaging Which i occasionally find undecomposed, but i try to remove most of that before it goes in.
- Thu May 21, 2020 11:58 am
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
I mean, could it be i am not adding ground eggshell Frequently enough and this is making it difficult for them to grind down certain foods? I haven’t in quite a while but will tonight.
- Thu May 21, 2020 11:56 am
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
Thank you, that makes sense, the upper trays look pretty healthy now, they contain no bedding and haven’t for at least 2 months. I was using the hamster bedding pretty much from the start, but wasn’t seeing this then. I’m trying to rack my brains on what i have changed....
- Wed May 20, 2020 8:34 pm
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
They are probably being opportunistic on the dying worms
- Wed May 20, 2020 8:23 pm
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
Hopefully i’ve attached two photos of what happens to some of the worms which drop in the sump. It’s still happening, you can see the white spots, but probably not the brown little mites that run around. The worms become bloated in part and thin in others, it looks a rather horrible death for them. ...
- Sat May 16, 2020 6:17 pm
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
Operation dry it out was carried out today.... In both wormeries. I didn’t fully harvest the trays in the end, but i did remove All the cotton bedding material from both as best i could. I could easily squeeze water out of it showing it was still very wet. I had introduced some egg box material in t...
- Wed May 13, 2020 12:15 am
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
I’m thinking of harvesting that bottom tray, there is still 2 or 3 worms perishing every other day, in both wormeries. I will start with the original one first but i have a slight worry that in harvesting the bottom tray, the one above and the feeding tray won’t have sufficient volume of material fo...
- Thu May 07, 2020 10:36 pm
- Forum: Worms & Wormeries
- Topic: Wet and claggy
- Replies: 35
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Re: Wet and claggy
Thanks, i will look at that too tomorrow, but the claginess may be contributing to that and blocking some of the perforations