I ordered some euro night crawlers a couple months ago, and they seem to be doing fine. After much research on bedding I decided to us the ''Black Kow'' manure from Walmart and nothing else with it. The worms seem to be alright with it, but it gets very compact, and I worry about it being to compact for the worms. I think I may be over watering the bed. Everything I've read about preparing the bedding say's to be able to squeeze a handful and only a few drops of water should come out. Now to squeeze a handful on manure and get a few drops of water, the mature is like wet mud, it's to wet. Have any of yall had to deal with this using mature? I know a lot of the guys use peat moss but I've read some bad things about using peat, like you should rinse it real good, and change it like every 15 days....:Doh: My worms are still alive, so maybe I'm over concerned with it. Any help in this would be appreciated....:fish