Worms verses Mice

[jamromhem]

My thought on it is... take a bucket of dirt. and some filtered water (preferred reverse osmosis after a chlorine filter/water softener. I have that in my house only cost a few grand :P ) make a worm bed. with the above mentioned items. Collect leaves from trees as they are still green. Oven dry them to kill parasites. (possibly precook the dirt to be sure) use the oven dried leaves as cover for the dirt and add some of the filtered water. This would be the purest thing I can think of for the decontamination of the worms.. i would also think to let the adults breed in small enclosures and pull the adults out and then use the second generation worms to prevent the toxins built up in the adults to be removed from the "semi-sterile" environment.

If you are that concerned.

My though is that if the area that you caught your snake or the area around your house it that toxic, then things probably would have all died there anyway. The world isn't that bad off yet. Getting there maybe, but not there yet. If there is not a environmental warning in your area then worry less.

Though the idea of a purified worm bed is a novel one. I might make one for the sake of beginning an earthworm feeder farm to sell worms to all of the toxin concerned peoples.

[Mommy2many]

I figured that since both worms and snakes came from same acre of land, can't be all that bad for either. We are not in an urban area and not pesticides are used on my property, so that has to be the safest place I can get anything, without resorting to my own purified worm farm Though I did try & start one for my snakes and that got icky really fast Not sure what I did wrong but you didn't want to open the lid...