Earthworms or also sometimes also known as Vermi rubellus. Many people believe that Earthworms have various benefits. Eartworm adult earthworms started to become one of the promising commodity. Earthworms including animals that are easy to be cultivated.
Cultivation media Earthworm
We need to prepare before we start the cultivation of worms is to provide a medium for the cultivation of worms. We need to check the size of the acidity of the medium that we use for the cultivation of worms. We can test the acidity we can use litmus paper. Or if we do not have a litmus paper we can test it out by putting the seeds in small increments. To determine whether the pH has been matched or not we can wait for 12 hours for 12 hours worms when convenient means ph provided is suitable. This is very important because if the pH of the prepared media does not fit will result in worms do not want to nest in the media.
Box used to contain tapeworm measuring 50 x 40 x 30 cm can accommodate approximately 1 ounce of seeds around 100-130 tail worms or seeds.
Feed Earthworm
Actually the media of earthworms are also a source of food from the ground cacaing. However worm also requires food apart from the medium used. Earthworms are able to spend the same food with body weight within twenty-four hours.
Food for earthworms can include earthworms. Food is considered the most economical because it is very easy to get, but we still have to choose the garbage bins is given not to affect the pH of the media.
Besides junk food can be given that the other is a good dirt chicken manure, cow manure, rabbit buffalo dung. Dirt should be given a dirt block, ripe ie dirt that has been allowed to stand for several days. Because of the wet dirt still require further decomposition.
Earthworm breeding
Worms is hemaphrodit animals are animals that have sex in a body double. However, a worm can not fertilize themselves. Seta breed worms. Seta will help unify the worm body when reproducing. One worm will produce one to three cocon. And every cocon will produce 4 to 7 worms.
