Euro Nightcrawler Worms 98-Day Time-Lapse FULL - vermicomposting

The European nightcrawler worms are placed into a container filled with leaves, cardboard, paper & coco coir bedding - plus some Brussels sprouts, carrot peels and cucumber pieces. Later they are fed banana, cantaloupe and strawberries & their bedding is occasionally refreshed. Mites sneak in on some leaves and their numbers grow quickly over time. The worms are even treated to a plentiful amount of crushed egg shells which they promptly haul down into their burrows
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00:00 | Start
00:19 | Addition of worms
02:51 | Fed banana
04:58 | Fed cantaloupe
06:52 | Fed fresh green leaves
07:07 | Fed dry brown leaves
08:57 | Fed strawberry
11:21 | Fed coco coir
14:57 | Fed crushed egg shell
#worms #wormcomposting #vermicomposting

[@A-V]

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[@KayKirkpatrick]

Seeing the eggshell bits immediately get dispersed was amazing. Definitely supports the theory that there's really no need to till your garden if you have a good worm population and the soil is not compacted.

[@Cutecat689]

Right?! No need to till the worm bin either, or to bury your food scraps in the worm bin as some would make us believe. You can just keep layering and the worms do the tilling

[@I.am.Mumma.Bear.1]

Interesting to see how they avoided the cardboard and let it rot down. And also didn’t go straight for the fresh food until it began breaking down 👍🏽 great proof that microbes are an integral part of worm life and composting 🪱🦠😊 Also the avoiding of Coco coir/peat is also a fantastic point, that worms if given a choice will avoid it, because it’s Antimicrobial.. they’re so smart 😊💕🪱👍🏽 Thanks for showing that 😊🪱👍🏽

[@A-V]

Great observations. In videos like this there are lots to see when you watch closely :)

[@I.am.Mumma.Bear.1]

@@A-V can you do one with worm chow please 😊👍🏽 My theory is worms don’t actually eat it but push it down and around, much like what they did to the egg shells (grit) in this video. 🤔🤓

[@A-V]

Interesting idea... :)

[@deewormsvermicomposting]

So peaceful and calming to watch! Thank you! The strawberries reminded me of little elf hats.

[@Derekjon35]

Yesssssss! I can watch this again and again.

[@HildeAzul]

This is very interesting. We read that Dendrobaena Hortensis is a ‘compost’ worm, which it is, but I am hard pressed to find how this worm lives in nature and from watching this, it is my guess that this worm may be endogeic as the horizontal tunnels became more pronounced and the same worms were traveling (I slowed and paused a lot). Cool.

[@rosinaiglesias-traductoral5827]

It seems cucumber is not their favourite scrap to eat. It is still there at the end of the video. Thank you for the video. It is very useful watching what they prefer to eat.

[@EujinLiew]

Love your time lapse videos. Give us MORE....

[@elkejansevanrensburg4692]

Thank you!!! Hypnotizingly satisfying to watch these little guys zip along. They really seem to enjoy their strawberries. And everytime the ice cubes are added, they speed up. What amazed me the most was when you added the eggshell grit ice cubes. Wow!

[@dondig2617]

Very interesting thanks for putting it on fast forward...

[@AR-tb9hq]

Love these vids, we need more! Specially comparative videos, those are great

[@soularis]

Love your videos. Time lapse are great fun to watch.

[@franklittle]

Thank you for another brilliant time lapse AV. Those ENC really don't hang about!

[@rico99586]

My two biggest surprises were how slow the bananas went, and how fast the eggshell went. Opposite of what I've always thought.

[@rhondamontiel3827]

Love the time lapses

[@GrimbolTheDruid]

This was really interesting to watch! And I learned a lot about my work bins behavior! Thanks for sharing!

[@A-V]

Thanks for watching!

[@Dee.C]

Oh wow. I watched it twice . I will have to watch again after Paige does her school work . I Know she will love it.

[@A-V]

:)

[@erikaircsik]

Super cool video!

[@carlafawcett3851]

Amazing!

[@uchibauki2515]

The European night crawlers are amazing I just bought some of them from fishing stores also tried to bring home the Canadian night crawlers but the cnc worms not really like eating food scraps ,they behave like the soil earthworms 🪱!

[@peterjames2580]

Nice..... I was wondering what plastic on top would look like. Thanks again for the time lapse.

[@A-V]

I kept thinking the same thing. I bet it would have resulted in a lot more worm traffic on the surface of the material :)

[@franceswatts4001]

Awesome time lapse as usual. What was the white substance in the left corner and a smaller patch on the right? They avoided that right from the outset.

[@A-V]

Great observation. That was grit (pulverized egg shell) - but what they were avoiding is the dry material that the grit was scattered into. The space right below it cavitated - is did the other side of the container. I believe it is for that reason the worms did not venture there. I made an extra effort to place extra ice cubes on those two outer sides - hoping the material would become damp enough so that the worms would not be repelled by it. Eventually they made their way over there & the grit got consumed. The mistake I made was placing dry chunks of coco coir there which absorbed a bit of moisture, got a bit swollen & then got pinned into place... preventing it from settling down with the rest of the surrounding materials. Thanks for watching!

[@Leeu6543]

I wonder how your house smells. Awesome video btw!

[@A-V]

Thanks for watching!

[@yousfmohd2682]

Great job....very interesting.....how many worms take part in this experiment and volume of bed as well.

[@A-V]

I did not count, weigh or measure the number of worms that were released into this container, but I did film the collection of the worms used for this as well as their launch. I invite you to check out that video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epvCYXaKhM2Bjas Thank you for watching!

[@esmesteyn7607]

This is really excellent. Do you have a video how to startup something like this, step by step?

[@A-V]

In the case of this particular time-lapse bin I do not have a video showing the setup... but in a few other cases I did roll the camera while building the bin. And now that you mention it, I had to go back quite a way to find an example of me showing the build of one of these time-lapse setups. More recently I have been setting up the bin & starting the filming without documenting it... and then only making a video a few days later once I was ready to recruit worms for the video & launch them into the bin. Anyhow... the following link will take you to an example of me setting up one of these time-lapses - I invite you to go check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJXan3ioprKIhZo Thanks for watching! PS: If you are actually looking for a video showing how you can set up a simple worm bin of your own, then I have a few examples of that too (the link here is a search of my video library for the words *"new bin"* : www.youtube.com/@A-V/search?query=new%20bin

[@esmesteyn7607]

@@A-V Thank you very much for your reply. Do you know if worms can eat Eucalyptus leaves. Thank you for your great videos.

[@A-V]

I'm sorry - I do not know. If you decide that you're going to try it then a good rule of thumb with anything new is to try it in a small portion of your worm bin - and scale up the use of experimental stuff only after it has proven to work will in isolation. Thanks again for watching!

[@AteamOFturds]

I believe it’s visible half way through that you can see mites eating as well . Am I correct?

[@A-V]

Yes, I think you are. Thanks for watching!

[@janetmichel3009]

The frozen vs fresh banana was interesting to see; the one on the right was frozen right?

[@A-V]

I know - it was interesting to see how quickly the one that had been frozen collapsed almost immediately :) Thanks for watching!

[@carriesweeney5421]

What is the purpose of the ice? I've added frozen food scraps to my compost and this caused a lot of excess moisture

[@A-V]

The ice is to make sure things do not dry out... with the materials in the container left exposed to the air without covers I worried about things losing their moisture through evaporation. Thanks for watching!

[@Jiggler7]

Bit late to this but im curious about the little circles that move around the strawberries. Are those larvae? Or What. Great vid

[@A-V]

Those are mites... helping to break down the yummy strawberries. I made a short video proving a close-up view of these types of mites. I invite you to check out that video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpOYoIaerqmsjZo Thanks for watching!

[@Jiggler7]

@@A-V this Is amazing. Thank you.

[@A-V]

:)

[@jojopornebo188]

Can you share the observatins from these time lapse videos. IMO, you have the same amount of worms when you started until you completed. I would expect that in 90 days you would have more than quadrupled the amount of worms. Did you remove some worms? Did the worms die?

[@A-V]

When worms sense that they are living in a constrained space they limit their reproduction... so perhaps that is what happened here. Or perhaps, like you said, some worms might have died - but I did not remove any. Thanks for watching!

[@michaeldavidson9939]

Are these Eisenia hortensis?

[@A-V]

I'm not very good with the scientific names of each species. I think you might be right 👍🏻

[@orubanatazhelizeo2833]

Disculpe eso que preparo es abono para plantas Podría explicarme

[@A-V]

El estiércol de lombriz no es un fertilizante típico para plantas... es más un cultivo de hongos y bacterias que proporciona al suelo del jardín muchas de las cosas que se necesitan para promover la salud de las plantas. ¡Gracias por ver!

[@borracho-joe7255]

Thanks for the content but I have a question; and this is not “questioning your actions”, it is more to understand...you appear to put a lot of ice (hydration) in this bin. Is that too much moisture or are you experiencing a lot of moisture evaporation due to the lights?

[@A-V]

The lights do not cause any evaporation - they are just a few dozen white Christmas lights. What I believe causes the evaporation is the uncovered container. I do not think the moisture is too much - I think it was just the right amount. Thanks for watching!

[@FRANKIEBONESMCDOOGLE]

why do you add ice?

[@A-V]

The ice is for applying moisture.. but in a way that allows it to enter the bin gradually. Thanks for watching!

[@alanciu2353]

Why add ice ?

[@A-V]

The ice is for applying moisture.. but in a way that allows it to enter the bin gradually. Thanks for watching!

[@alanciu2353]

@@A-V Tqvm

[@muhk9100]

@ A V Do you by chance have any Enchytraeus albidus (White worms) or Enchytraeus buchholzi (Grindal worms)? although they are tiny it'd be very interesting to see how quick(or slow) they work compared to their big siblings. Im not sure if the process is the same for them or not but have always wondered what they could do in large numbers. Anyways great vid!

[@A-V]

I have red wigglers, blue worms, European & African nightcrawlers... but none of the types you mentioned. Thanks for watching!