[Dorothee Jöllenbeck-Pfeffel]

Hi Bill!
I just wash the clay material, to wash out the very small powder of clay. Then I sieve the water out. So the material is not wet but damp.
Then I add the starting culture of Grindal. When the worms have hidden in the ground, I add on the surface very soft smelting oatmeal (Haferflocken). As Martin Hallmann tells in his article in the Makropode 2015, you can also add some good dry fish food and one Omega 3 fish oil Gelatine – Capsule (Hallmann said, that that perhaps brought back the red colour to his Paros …).
And he waits till the food is all eaten – then he washes the worms with water out of the box. I do it about two times a week. You have to be careful that no water remains standing on the bottom of the box. This regularly washing seems to prevent mites to develop in the culture. Till now all works well!