My Worm Factory 360 was started February 2, 2015. Despite being a beginner, so far, so good. (I’m sure I’ve made lots of mistakes, but the worms seem to be taking them in stride.)

Three months ago, I put a thawed grapefruit that had been frozen for a month, in the factory’s top tray. After not touching the grapefruit for weeks, a few days ago I noticed that the worms had eaten out all of the pulp and under the skin was a HUGE pile of worms. This makes me nervous. There were worms other places, but I’m always scared when I see a big clump of worms congregating anywhere. Opposite the grapefruit is a pile of rabbit poop. There were two trays underneath the grapefruit/worm tray as well.

An aside. Yesterday was my first harvest and I found several worms in the bottom tray. After spending two hours separating them by hand, (looking so hard to save the babies gave me a migraine), I gave up and tried to use the screen, but the compost was clumpy and nothing fell through. (And using the screen was really hard on the babies.) I’m using light now to try to separate them, but how do I remove all of the eggs from the clumpy compost that won’t go through the screen? Is clumpy compost a result of over-watering?

Thanks for your help!