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Post by Jay Blair on Sept 8, 2005 5:01:45 GMT -5
After seeing how expensive the can o wors units are, I am trying this.
Three chambers made of 5 gallon bucketswith matched up migration ports made of of soda bottles to allow migration from one bucket to the next.
I set the three connected buckets in a scrap wood triangle frame to reduce floor space.
Since I am using buckets that I buy dog food in and my daily Dr pepper bottle, my only cost is the @ dolar bag of hotglue to seal the soda bottle port to one of the buckets times three.
Let you know in a few months how its worked.
If you cant find free buckets, they can be bought at wall mart for $5 a piece.
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Post by Darryl on Sept 8, 2005 6:24:23 GMT -5
Jay, I hate to do this, but could you expound a little on the setup that you have in mind. I have always made my own bins out of either plastic containers or 2 x 4 and plywood. I never have paid attention to 'Can -O - worms' and I don't have a clue how it functions. I am assuming that somehow you would connect the buckets together via the bottles and that the worms travel from one bucket to the other, is this correct?
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Post by Jay Blair on Sept 8, 2005 11:31:26 GMT -5
A Can O Worms uses trays stacked in like a brinkman smoker.. Im trying the buckets side by side with the darkend soda bottle bodies plugging the buckets together as pipe fittings or hamster tubes.
I hope to also trigger migration by moving airline ventilation from the finished buckets to the feed charged ones.
Later I may apply the concept to a 100 gallon unit if the 15 gallon model proves effective.
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Post by tt on Sept 8, 2005 13:34:48 GMT -5
like running them inside each bucket to hold them together? I sorta can see that. But wouldnt two bottles per barrel give more balance? I m just thinking I have 45 gallon plastic drums
I could take three and stack them or stack one on top of the two connect them with the bottles and air but then i run into food and bedding falling out but then you could put screen. I think I will stick with my 900 liter wood bins and run the air and heat that way. But I still kinda like that because it would make it easier to harvest.
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Post by theinfamousj on Sept 18, 2005 18:08:30 GMT -5
Oooooooo ... sideways. Now why didn't I think of that.
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Post by austinpcherry on Sept 22, 2007 10:33:16 GMT -5
Well? Did this work? I love the idea.
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Post by austinpcherry on Sept 23, 2007 9:18:44 GMT -5
I was looking around the house last night and came across a three-foot section of 2" PVC and a "flow through" valve. If the bucket trick works then I will hook two 5 gal buckets together and use the valve in the middle to control migration. I would cut a two inch hole in the side of each bucket, then glue a 6" piece of PVC to the hole. The two pieces of pipe would then be dry fitted into the valve. That way I could control when the worms migrated and would allow me to seperate the buckets without having to re-glue every time. This method would not really promote rapid breeding but would allow for ease of harvesting the castings.
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Post by Jay Blair on Sept 28, 2007 1:23:52 GMT -5
Well? Did this work? I love the idea. It didn't work as well as I hoped . I ended up using 5 gallon buckets in the vertical mode and used screw molly anchors inserted in the bucket sides to prevent the buckets from suction binding together. I drilled star patterns of 1/4 inch holes in the bottoms and set the bucket towers in plastic wash tubes on soda bottle caps to allow drainage collection and cO2 venting. |
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