Safety issue feeding earthworms

[d_virginiana]

I'm interested in how the successfully did it themselves...

I'll ask them, but from what I remember, it was pretty simple. They used some topsoil from WalMart without any pesticides or fertilizers in it, as well as some top soil dug up from the yard. Overall soil depth was deep enough that you wanted a trowel to dig down to the worms. They had one of those big solid-color rubbermaid tubs so no light got in, and kept wet newspaper layered over the top of the soil. They stocked it with a couple containers of the DMF nightcrawlers from WalMart and fed them some brand-name worm food they found online as well as fruit and vegetable scraps.
From what I remember they didn't ventilate the tub either...
Anyway, they had a pretty good worm supply for several years off just those couple containers of worms, as well as a lot of regular backyard earthworms (from the yard soil they put in there). Eventually they just kind of got tired of keeping them.

[Rushthezeppelin]

How odd I've always heard canadian nightcrawlers needed like 6ft of soil depth to live in.

[guidofatherof5]

Come Winter they certainly need to get below the frost line.

[Rushthezeppelin]

Ohhh maybe that's why....they only need that much in the wild. Inside we can regulate more constant temps for them, although I know the prefer in the 50s which can be a challenge to do with a fridge dedicated to them. Or a root cellar which don't exist in texas lol.