Keeping worms in the food dish?

[Kloster]

Is there a way to do this? my worms always seem to climb out of the dish and its annoying collecting them afterwards.

I was thinking maybe lining it with aluminium? Itd look pretty ghetto but if it gets the job done...

 

[Navan94]

There are worm feeder dishes where the top of the bowl sort of curves into towards the center of the bowl. I put medium phoenix worms in my dragon's salad dish and they had no problems scaling over the sides even though they could barely reach.

Here's a pic of one http://www.exo-terra.com/download/high_res/products/images/PT-2816_Worm_Dish.jpg

 

[Kloster]

Yeah thats why I havent spent money on getting a dish.
It seems to me that its not the shape that will contain them but the texture hence the aluminium foil idea.

 

[LJean]

You could try the foil and see if it helps. Smooth sides on a dish can keep them contained more than a rough texture. The smooth sides of the dishes I use the phoenix worms could not get out of. I have problems with superworms getting out of all the dishes I use. ugh! They are bigger and can get out easier.

 

[crazyerick]

I use a small chrome cat food dish, roughly the size of his previous dragon bowl. My superworms can't get out, they just slip off the sides.

 

[LJean]

I'll have to get two of those dishes then. Thanks for the tip.

 

[crazyerick]

And its lovely to clean!

 

[msmaui]

I have the little plastic bowl with the curved-in top and the Phoenix worms have NEVER been able to climb out.

 

[Kloster]

I tried a spaghetti sauce bottle cap.
Worked like a charm, its curved at the top just a tiny bit but surprisingly it was enough to keep the PWs in. Theyre not very good climbers anyways.