africans

[shylo]

hi Bruce,I seperated my castings from the africans and put them in a new bucket of peat.After a few days i am noticing some worms still on top plus a few dead.I have this in 2 buckets out of 4,any reasoning on this.The othewr thing is how damp should the top of the peat be.I have them in my heated basement,its about 70 in there.The first batch of casting came out awsome putting them thru 1/8 " screen.I can see why you say you should screen the peat before you put them worms in.It makes it a lot easier at the end.

thanks
joe

[The Worm Expert]

Joe

Check the variables between the four buckets, i.e. moisture, pH... The moisture level should be the same throughout and without it be compressed it should read right about 30%. That same material if compressed would read about 70% moisture on a soil moisture meter.

Africans are sensitive to moisture and probably the easiest to kill off when too much moisture is present.

Another issue could be if a couple buckets have too much feed mixed in which could sour the bin easy.

Let me know what you find out.

Bruce