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Canadian Night crawler Information and Care  
 
Keeping Canadian Nightcrawlers Alive isn't always easy!
 
 
Canadian nightcrawlers are easy to keep alive if you know what you are getting into.
 
Canadian nightcrawlers (Lumbricus Sp.) are a type of earthworm. They prefer colder temperatures and breed slower than red worms. Fisherman use these worms to catch fish and Aquarists use these worms as Live Fish Food.
 
Canadian Night Crawlers are those worms that you can buy at Most Bait Stores. They are found in the fishing section, held inside of a small refrigerator. If you take these worms home and try to raise them using the same methods you would for native worms. The night crawlers will die.
 
Continue reading to learn how you can keep Canadian Night crawlers alive and healthy.
 
 
 
You will need the following items in order to keep Canadian Night Crawlers :
 
  Canadian Night crawlers
  Plain Potting Soil
  Fish tank thermometer
  Fallen Leaf and Grass Debris
  Vegetable Peelings and scraps
  Plastic Shoebox with Lid
  Aged aquarium water
 
 
Keep a 'worm log' so that you can track the progress of your Canadian night crawlers.
 
 
 Find your worms!
 
After you have bought your nightcrawlers. You should bring them home as soon as possible! Nightcrawlers need to be housed in a refrigerator, or else the heat will kill them. Canadian night crawlers will die if the temperature inside of the worm bin gets higher than approximately 65 F.
 
 
Set up the worm farm or bin

Choose the the right container for your Canadian Night crawler culturing bin. You could use a garbage can except it more than likely wont fit into your fridge.
 

Walmart also sells plastic Sterilite brand "shoe-boxes" located in the 'small - large, plastic storage bucket section.'

 

Do worms breath?

Cut a few small holes in the lid of the plastic shoebox. This will allow oxygen to pass in, out and through the 'shoe-box'. Canadian Night Crawlers need to breath. Open the lid every other day to check on the worms. This also replenishes the air in the night crawler bin.
 

Worm Bedding:

Add about 2 inches of dirt into your night crawler bin. You can use regular potting soil just make sure that it doesn't contain any pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
 
Other types of worm bedding that you can mix to make worm substrate are :

Coir (coconut fiber)
Peat moss
Organic leaf litter

Sand
Gravel at bottom of the worm bin for drainage
 
 
 Moisture:
Moisten the dirt with bottled water. You can also use rain water, Reverse Osmosis water, and in emergencies old fish tank water. You want the dirt to be moist but not soaking wet. The worms breath air and it is possible for these worms to drowned.
 
In contrast, soil that is too dry is not good for the worms. They will eventually dry out and die.
 

 

Feeding Canadian Night crawlers:
Feed your Night crawlers as much as they will eat in 2 or 3 days. Increase the amount of food given as the worm colony gets larger. Always keep Fallen Leaf Litter and Dry Grass Clippings in your worm bin for food. In addition to this staple your worms will eat many things including the following :

chicken mash, either chick starter or laying mash

fruit and vegetable peelings

coffee and tea grounds

stale bread

The most healthful calcium sources are green leafy vegetables and legumes, or "greens and beans" for short. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, collards, kale, mustard greens, Swiss chard,

Don't worry about overfeeding your worms, if you stay on top of moldy and rotten foods.

Don't mix the food into the bedding. The food should lay on top of the bedding or substrate.
 

Temperature:
Keep your Canadian Night crawler bin in the fridge because they will not survive temperatures higher than around 65 F. If your refrigerator is shared by anyone else, be sure to communicate that you are planning to keep worms in the fridge. You might want to take a big permanent marker and write on the box in large letters "Live Earthworms!"

Check the Canadian Night crawler bin every 2 or 3 days. Remove any rotten food and add new food at this time. Check to see if the soil is too wet or dry.

Check the temperature of your worm bin. These worms can even live if ice crystals or frost starts to form inside of the bin! Try to keep the worm bin on a shelf in your fridge that keeps the temperature inside of the bin around a steady 60 F.

You can measure the temperature in your worm bin using a cheap fish tank thermometer.
 
 
 
Other instructions and maintenance:
 
Carefully flip or turn over the worms bedding every 2 - 4 weeks, depending on the size of your culturing container. This will help to keep the dirt aerated and ensure that the bedding isn't holding poisonous pockets of toxic gases. This is called anoxia and night crawlers can't live in an anoxic environment. Not many living things can.
 
Remove and replace 10% of the old bedding from the top of the worm bin every 4 - 6 months. baby worms.
 
Upgrade your worms to a larger bin as needed. You can fit at least 50 adult worms in each shoebox. Not to mention hundreds of baby worms. Allow some of the Canadian night crawlers to grow to adulthood. This way you will not interrupt the breeding process.