WORM BIN STATUS AFTER A WEEK

This is how the bin would look like after a week. The grass and water melon are totally gone!

Remember the "left to right technique". You can see from the picture, the left side is the old compost. Middle will be 2 weeks old compost with food (you will find lots of worm here) and right are 1 week old newspaper with food scrap.

Showing of my 2 weeks old food scrap. Contains left over of banana peel, tea bag, mango, apple and etc.

This container is kept inside the refrigerator.

Pour the food scrap out and mix it around. Remember to tear off the tea bag/coffee so that the worms can get into them.

WORM BIN CREATURE - GOOD AND BAD

Besides worms, many creatures will start to populate the worm bin naturally. All the photos are taken off the internet. I don't have a macro camera :(

Good (helps worm break down decaying material)

1. Millipede
   
   
2. Sow bug or wood lice
   
   
   
   
3. Ear wigs - looks harmful but they are not
   
   
   
4. Mold and fungi (white is good, black is bad)
   
   
   
5. Soldier fly larvae - Helps break the material but I always have doubt if its thick "fur" irritates my worm. LoL
   
   
   
6. Unknown small cone snail - but i find them able to eat all the food scrap faster then anything else
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Bad (harmful!)

1. Red Mites - they are predator
   
   
2. Centipede - they eat worms. Poisonous to humans too.
   
   
   
3. Slug - they eat worms like spaghetti
   
   
4. Flat worm - looks can be deceiving. They swallow worms whole!
   
   
   

Not sure

1. Spring Tail - My bin was once infested by PINK spring tail and 90% of the worm died.
   

Preparing food scraps

You'll need 3 empty small ice cream containers.

1. Start by place all the food scraps (apple skin, veges, tea bag, coffee bean and etc) into first container.
   
   
2. Always keep them in the refrigerator.
   
   
3. Once the first container is full, start filling the second container followed by the third container.
   
   
4. Depending on how much food waste you have, usually I have a container full in one week.
   
   
5. This way, you will have fill up all the containers in 2-3 weeks time.
   
   
6. You may now give the food scrap from 1st container to you worm. Food which are 1 week are ready to be consume by worms.