fbb in worm farm

[Jimmy McGill]

Hey guys,

I have an indoor red worm farm in a 15l pot. Earlier today I did a major inspection to see how my worms were doing after about 3 months time in the farm, so I emptied it in a bucket to put some layers of thin packaging cardboard in the soil and took a good look at my worms. They are healthy and numerous, they clearly reproduce as I have seen quite a few babies.

As I was inspecting the medium I've realized that the crushed eggshells that I gave them about a month ago are totally gone and I remembered that I still have some Fish, Blood and Bone meal and I decided to give them some to boost the NPK of the mix. Now I wonder, how good of an idea was it? I only gave them 2 table spoon to be careful. I know that blood and fish dissolve pretty quick in living soil and bones stays there for a while, but I do not know if the worms will actually consume them.

I know you are not supposed to put animal waste (except for poop in some cases) in compost and I never did until now, but fbb being a powder, I thought I'd give it a go. Do you guys ever tried that? Will the worms consume the fbb? Can it throw my micro ecosystem out of balance?

Interested in your thoughts and experience.
JD.

 

[autogogo]

throwing fish, blood, and bones in the compost pile is good. Throwing meal in is an expensive waste. The meal is already good. No real need for the worms to eat it. I killed a lot of worms turning their bin into a garbage pit.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

hey autogogo, thanks for your answer.

Little follow up, I moved my worm farm into a bigger tote 2 days ago so I checked on them and everything is fine. The smell of fbb is gone and the worms are lively and numerous.