Red wigglers, Red worms, Tiger worms, Red tiger worms...etc they go by many names, and are often confused for baby earth worms.
However my lil boogers are stripped in the body (hence named tiger worms) and if you upset them they secrete a slight odor (simliar to stink bugs but no where near as bad and it doesnt last).
Well anywho today I did an experiment becuase i was seeing worm eggs, but NO babies... so my lil experiement I did JUSt this morning... already had results! LOL! I collected as many worm eggs as I could, and put them in a plastic container in my incubator (with the lid shut)... I opened it up just a few hours later, and wala I got worms hatching left and right! They are soo small, that they are deffinatly smaller thana strand of hair it's crazy! i cant even touch htem I know my fingers would smoosh them easily.
I breed them for future fishing as well as bird treats
Heres the lil cuties (im sure some of you wll be like EWW) LOL Hopefully I'll find some other worm breeders or people interested in it. It's pretty easy, and I feed them none other than chicken feed
well and moistened shreaded newspaper and sometimes apple slices. They do not live IN the soil like earthworms, they live in the "leaf litter".
Egg Capsule in my hand (each one holds about 4 wormlings lol):
Wormling slowly hatching out:
three worms already out (third is to the left center by an egg capsule):
And heres an adult with an egg capsule still attached (it falls off eventually after it dries it's the amber colored oval looking thing) and the light tan crumbles are chicken feed lol:
Good photo showing the stripes that give it it's name:
However my lil boogers are stripped in the body (hence named tiger worms) and if you upset them they secrete a slight odor (simliar to stink bugs but no where near as bad and it doesnt last).
Well anywho today I did an experiment becuase i was seeing worm eggs, but NO babies... so my lil experiement I did JUSt this morning... already had results! LOL! I collected as many worm eggs as I could, and put them in a plastic container in my incubator (with the lid shut)... I opened it up just a few hours later, and wala I got worms hatching left and right! They are soo small, that they are deffinatly smaller thana strand of hair it's crazy! i cant even touch htem I know my fingers would smoosh them easily.
I breed them for future fishing as well as bird treats
Heres the lil cuties (im sure some of you wll be like EWW) LOL Hopefully I'll find some other worm breeders or people interested in it. It's pretty easy, and I feed them none other than chicken feed
Egg Capsule in my hand (each one holds about 4 wormlings lol):
Wormling slowly hatching out:
three worms already out (third is to the left center by an egg capsule):
And heres an adult with an egg capsule still attached (it falls off eventually after it dries it's the amber colored oval looking thing) and the light tan crumbles are chicken feed lol:
Good photo showing the stripes that give it it's name:
