Paradise for the fisherman: a quiet backwater, well-fed place, working gear, a bucket full of worms, a cage at the ready and great weather. What a nuisance it may be if the bite is not over yet, and all the worms in excitement have already been used up! Especially when the angler is a “multi-instrumentalist” using several float rods or donks at once.
If a person is really passionate about fishing, he will definitely think about how to breed worms for fishing somewhere at home. But you can’t attach a dunghill (like in a summer cottage) in a corner of an apartment. But suitable containers somewhere in the basement - it really can be.
Worms feel comfortable in medium-level compost compost. To the touch it should be like water-soaked and wrung gauze. This is important to achieve before you breed worms for fishing, otherwise if there is not enough water instead, you will find in the compost an ant colony, a beetle family, or an antagonistic company of wood lice.
To understand the importance of the following condition, you will have to remember a little biology school course. Each manure worm is a living plant that processes plant debris every day as much as it weighs. So
breeding worms for fishing at home is unthinkable without constantly maintaining high levels of plant humus in compost. Collect fallen leaves, mowed grass, wilted flowers, bits and peels of vegetables and fruits. Adding sawdust to fruit trees will make the compost more loose, and therefore permeable to oxygen. But sawdust from trees treated with chemicals is absolutely contraindicated. Worms also really will not like the peels from oranges and lemons, meat processing products, the remains of hard-salted and pepper food.
How to breed worms for fishing in sufficient quantities? A kilogram of worms will require from half to one and a half kilograms of vegetable humus. If at the same time the compost is sufficiently moistened, the first offspring will appear within two months after settlement, and soon several fairly large communities of worms will live in the tank. This amount for big fishing is more than enough. For further reproduction - too.
Breeding worms for fishing will require the creation of an imitation of a biotope for them - a living space that maximally corresponds to natural conditions. The biotope for dung worms consists of the following layers (bottom to top):
- Brick chips, small clay fragments (drainage).
- Newsprint.
- Compost.
- Scraps of raw paper or raw sawdust.
- Compost.
- Scraps of raw paper or raw sawdust.
- Compost.
On this layer, as a rule, from the compost surface to the edges of the container, about 8-10 cm remain, which means that the container is full. Otherwise, the layers of paper and compost should be alternated until filled. The biotope needs to be completely changed every three months or more often.
If you know how to breed worms for fishing, and do it in a plastic container, be sure to provide it with holes in the bottom and walls to provide air access and drainage of excess water. However, do not forget to cover them with gauze or loose cloth so that fastidious worms do not go through them in search of a better life.