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- From: den0@lehigh.edu (Dean E. Nelson)
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- Subject: Re: Red Worms as Fish Food?
- Keywords: fish, food, worms, composting
- Message-ID: <den0.83.728066710@lehigh.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:45:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.131328.10456@wam.umd.edu>
- harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold) writes:
- > Unless you come up with something
- >clever (which I'd be interested in hearing about) you have to pick
- >out the worms one at a time by hand, so I'm not likely to feed
- >them to the fish every day.
-
- I have a sizeable cultrue outside. If you place a piece of burlap
- on the top and then spread some food on top of the burlap, say corn
- meal or oatmeal, the worms will come up through the burlap to get it.
- Lift the burlap and the worms come with it. Of course, it takes some
- time for the worms to move through the burlap, but if you leave it
- their and keep food on it, you should always be able to harvest some
- easily. Since burlap tends to degrade after awhile, you may be able
- to find some plastic mesh that works better.
-
- Dean Nelson
- den0@lehigh.edu
-