How To Harvest Worms

[Slavkleos]

I've had meals and supers since May and the babies have started growing. I remove the beetles and dump the substrate into the designated houses and I've noticed a load of little supers because I have a view of the bottom of their house but not many meals because I have a heatpad fixed with black tape on the bottom of theirs although I see alot of movement, have had one turn into a pupa and see a couple when I check on them. The local pet shop I got the original worm populations from has confirmed they'd buy them but I need to know how to harvest them and I'm gonna wait a few more months to get an even bigger population. How would I harvest them? Picking them out individually would take forever and stress them out.

 

[Ramen]

Best way to harvest them is to scoop them and strain. After straining, you can pick them out of the strainer by hand.

 

[TheraMygale]

Yep, straining. Get small nut milk bag filters. Something that can let out the substrate but hold on the babies.

what i plan on doing, is moving the adults only. I use hydro salad containers to make nurseries. That way i dont disturb the eggs.

adults are pretty easy to scoop out with a mini fishnet.

 

[Brewser]

A ' Sifter ' with appropiate sized mesh may be used for this purpose.