I was looking in on my worms after ignoring them for 3-4 days (I'm getting better at that) and didn't even notice this while checking out my tower and the @Cherene Packard Nursery. Took me a minute to grasp all the color I was seeing in my breeder bin and what it was! Guess there was some active spores left in the substrate! Shot the video and then looked at the other nursery. That's the still photo! What an adventure!

Can't believe these creatures that one cannot see with the naked eye live in the castings it's amazing

Hey Everyone, I’d like to thank you all for your help over the last couple weeks but I unfortunately lost my worm bin to protein poisoning 😔

Here is my European Nightcrawler bin that is about 6 weeks old. I started it with 50/50 precompost and plain shredded cardboard. As you can see, the majority of the bin is worm castings! So cool!! At this point, you have options. You can sift castings and reset it with more fresh worm bedding (My go to is that 50/50 mix) OR you can do what I did in this video. I am not in a hurry to sift castings, so I was ok with doing this option. I split the bin in half, and put half in another new mortar bin. Then I added dry shredded cardboard to both of the bins and mixed it all in. The castings had a LOT of moisture, so the dry cardboard was able to soak up a lot of that moisture to help it not be too dense or muddy anymore. The worms are very happy with this because it put air pockets back into the bedding and gave new cardboard for them to start munching on. Splitting them also gives them more room to spread out and grow. These worm castings will inoculate the fresh cardboard and the microbes will start latching on to it. If i was wanting more worm castings, I would have sifted this and put that 50/50 precompost and cardboard. Remember this turn around was 6 weeks. It usually takes months and months to get worm castings from just plain cardboard. Precompost is the way to go!!