My white worm culture has slowly got slimyer and wetter and know there is heap and heaps of white worms, but the dirt that there in just looks to wet, and i noticed that quite alot have tryed climing out of the soil and up the sides of the container, should i be adding some new soil to this and halfing it and starting a new culture aswell?

Shae 250

Your best bet is to re-start the culture with new medium.

Garden compost (Organic stuff if you can get it) works ok.

To get your worms out of the old mix do the following.

Find a piece of fine mesh curtain... a bit like the mesh used for fish nets that you use in your tank.

Drape this over a bowl and secure the edges of the mesh to the rim... use clothes pegs.

Place a small amount (a good handful) of the old mix onto the net and place a strong light directly above it.

This will drive the worms through the mesh and into the bowl.

Place these worms in the centre of the new culture medium.

I wouldn't bother feeding the new culture for a day or so till they settle down.

HTH

Bill

Cheers Bill

Shae 250

Have you not got any drainage in your system Shae??

After rescuing some of your drowning worms and starting your new culture as per PEG.

Aerate the soil of you old mix by turning it over with a hand-weeding fork.

What is your w/w culture that you have now, in at the moment??

Alan 104

Suphew suggested we put an old UG filter plate in the bottom of a container and put the soil on top of that - it stops it getting wet and slimey and is a quick, easy solution.

Cheers

Jude

There just in a plastic ice-cream container.

Shae 250

Woops,

Bad mistake there 250.

UNLESS

you have holes in the bottom for drainage.

It is really only a small bucket filled with dirt, worms, and their damp food that is covered and can not breathe, or evaporate.

So it gradually gets wetter and wetter, drowning the inhabitants.

Slimy are the dead worms up the side are escaping drowning.

Just need a couple of holes punched in the bottom.

Alan 104