I would use the MP. If you want the to grow out in there only place about 600 cocoons per half 55 gallon bin which is basically 3 cubic feet. If trying to just hatch them and willing to change the bedding frequently especially as they grow you can add about 2.400 cocoons.

Bruce

Bruce

You can usually find one at a local nursery or home improvement store. If you can not find one locally here is a decent Rapitest moisture meter at a low price as well as find some pH meters if needed.

Where can you find a moisture meter? Or a PH meter?

thanks
Conrad

The size worm bins you mention would work however make a lot more work out of the process as well as take up more room, floor square footage, than really needed. The 8′ x 2′ x 2′ will take up 16 square feet of floor space and require approximately 4,400 worms per bin for optimal breeding. By using another technique which would make changing the bedding materials, feeding, collecting cocoons and newly hatched worms… much more manageable is the 14 Day Worm Castings eBook. Not only would it make it more manageable but require much less floor space, approximately 5 square feet vs your 16 square feet. The worms will breed faster and grow more quickly using this method. The additional benefit would be the quick turn around of worm castings which you could sell by the pound or in bulk by the ton!

Bruce

Whenever raising two types of composting worms together, one will prove to be more prolific than the other and eventually take over the bin.

As worms basically keep to themselves (referring to composting worms we deal with here), they do not fight or go after one another.

Perhaps mankind could learn a thing or two from worms

Just comes down to the laws of nature, survival of the fittest!

Bruce