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How often do you check in on your worms? 1 Year, 6 Months ago Karma: 4  
I usually check in on my worms daily unless I'm out of town. If I have recently added new worms I check on them more often to make sure they are settling in.
 
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Re:How often do you check in on your worms? 1 Year, 6 Months ago Karma: 2  
I check my worms as I feed them
 
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Re:How often do you check in on your worms? 1 Year, 6 Months ago Karma: 4  
We must be the only ones to check in on our worms.lol
 
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Re:How often do you check in on your worms? 1 Year, 5 Months ago Karma: 1  
It seems that I need to leave my worms alone. I think I was messing with them too much, (daily) and it seemed that their numbers were decreasing.

It seems that when I leave them alone, only checking for food levels, they do MUCH better.

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Re:How often do you check in on your worms? 1 Year, 5 Months ago Karma: 4  
thill wrote:
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It seems that I need to leave my worms alone. I think I was messing with them too much, (daily) and it seemed that their numbers were decreasing.

It seems that when I leave them alone, only checking for food levels, they do MUCH better.

-TH


I usually leave them alone. I just check to see if they need food or misting the top with water.

I also look for early warning signs of something going wrong such as food consumption suddenly dropping, dead worms on top of bedding or worms crawling around on top of bedding despite bright light over them.
 
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Re:How often do you check in on your worms? 1 Year, 5 Months ago Karma: 6  
Once a week, I water them more often but I "check" them once a week or two. They like to be left alone.
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