Worms Were Too Hot

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I have both Red Wigglers and European Nightcrawlers. 

I set up where my Worms would come up in another Tote and I could get the Castings. 

My Adult European Nightcrawlers figured out how to get out so I lost them but have little ones and Cocoons. 

Went to feed them and my Red Wigglers were trying to get out. 

Rigged up different Totes and put them in a cooler area. 

We shall see.

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[oneshot 1]

Well gave them more bedding and some water. 

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[bfishn]

Freeze up some plastic containers of ice for the really hot days. They'll sweat enough to maintain the moisture too. 

I can't say that a dead worm farm is the most offensive stench I've ever encountered, but it's pretty close.

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[tjm]

cover the out side of the totes with some kind of insulation heat is hitting that bedding from five sides. Partial burying the totes in saw dust, compost, etc. or packing bales of straw around them are quick ideas.  I kept my worm beds in the basement which stayed cooler than outside. Might set the tubs inside larger tubs so the space between them acts as insulation.

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1 hour ago, bfishn said:

Freeze up some plastic containers of ice for the really hot days. They'll sweat enough to maintain the moisture too. 

I can't say that a dead worm farm is the most offensive stench I've ever encountered, but it's pretty close.

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Well?    What’s the most offensive?   Inquiring minds want to know 😆

[bfishn]

8 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Well?    What’s the most offensive?   Inquiring minds want to know 😆

A 5-gallon bucket full of gizzard shad left outside to freeze in the winter, then forgotten. It was remembered the day it blew the snap lid off...🤢

[fishinwrench]

More than once a customer has dropped a boat off here, for various repairs, with fish in the livewell.   Once during mid-July, and it was 2 weeks before I could start on it.   

🤢 

[tjm]

10 hours ago, bfishn said:

A 5-gallon bucket full of gizzard shad left outside to freeze in the winter, then forgotten. It was remembered the day it blew the snap lid off...🤢

That would be excellent coyote bait. Any predator really.

I still think hot dead worms are ranker than hot dead fish, at full rot they be about equally nasty. I could still smell the night-crawlers that died in my trunk months later and they were only in there a half day.

[BilletHead]

26 minutes ago, tjm said:

That is excellent opossum bait. Any predator really.

I still think hot dead worms are ranker than hot dead fish, at full rot they be about equally nasty. I could still smell the night-crawlers that died in my trunk months later and they were only in there a half day.

Fixed it for you 😁,

  I buried a bucket of shad in the ground almost a year. Skimmed the oil off top for scent. Used the stuff underneath for bait. Possum catching deal. The fox and coyote would just roll in it and set off the trap. like any canine does with rotten stuff. I had a friend who caught a gray fox by the shoulder with the stuff.  

[tjm]

Rarely had  rolled sets, always by red fox, but, I guess that was just luck. And I should have said lure, because I seldom used bait after the early learning seasons, unless targeting possums.  I have never used shad, so am only guessing, but believe that anything smelly will attract scavengers  and all predators are scavengers at some point. Possums do find more sets than most other critters because they start out earlier in the evening and have the traps plugged by the time others arrive. I used to make a lot of possum sets early in the season. Easy money I thought.