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When this discussion started I had never thought to put worms in the system. I love to experiment so I added about a dozen red wigglers, have not seen any since they burrowed in. I am sure they are in there somewhere.
The neat thing is that my four-year old daughter likes to catch regular earth-worms in the soil garden and keep them in buckets etc. About two weeks ago she asked if she could add some worms to the fish tank so they could have a treat. I said sure, knowing that the gold fish would probably pass, I think she added 4-5 regular earth worms directly to the tank. Tonight I cleaned the filter on the pump and when I took the cover off there were two of these regular earth worms on the inside of the case next to the filter. I laid them on the gravel bed while I cleaned the filter and by the time I got back three minutes later they had already burrowed into the gravel. I never would have guessed that regular earthworms could live in water for a couple of weeks, apparently they found a place that was hospitable.
I have also been adding some worm bin leach-ate every few days. I'm not sure if its the worm juice or the system is starting to get into the "zone" but the plants have really perked up and the seedlings have just exploded in the last couple of days.
Nate, you could probably coax the worms out of your tower medium by laying a corse plastic screen across it (plastic bird netting works) and putting a layer of dampened sphagnum moss over the netting . Thats what I do in my worm tubs to get them to move so I can harvest castings.....they migrate to the food . After a day or so the lil buggers climb up into the sphagnum moss and start happily munching away,then get put into a new bin.
Just my 2 cents
Steve
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