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Originally posted by damn yankee:
Attention worm ranchers:

Would it be practical to adapt the principle of a rot basket to redworms or earthworms? Would they "volunteer" to drop into the water?
Earthworms are just too hard to raise.

Mealworms may work better. They are prolific breeders, and eat cheap, good-smelling grain byproducts and scraps of bread. You would have to figure a way to take advantage of their behaviors to trick them into falling into the water. I bet it could be done.