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African Nightcrawlers

African Nightcrawlers

  • Best For Experienced Worm Farmers. 
  • Free Shipping! Live Delivery Guaranteed*
  • The weight is only the weight of the worms, not including any extra bedding.
    • some weight will be lost during shipping
  • Each pound will typically be around 300 worms per pound.
  • Ships on Tuesdays from a partner worm farm.
  • Contact me for bulk quantities.
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Regular price $60.00 USD
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Shipping & Live Delivery Guarantee

Live worm orders placed before Friday are shipped the following Monday or Tuesday. Orders placed on the weekend may not go out until the week after.

You will receive an email confirmation when I've made a tracking number for the package. You will also receive an email on the day of delivery, and when they are delivered.

These are live animals and will need to be tended to in a timely manner. I guarantee live delivery - but I cannot guarantee their survival if the worms are neglected after delivery. For this reason, you must contact me within 6 hours of delivery with video or photo evidence to qualify for a free replacement.

Worm shipments may be delayed in instances of especially unfavorable weather, or shipping holidays.

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Why Choose the African Nightcrawler?

1. Rapid Vermicomposting Potential

The African Nightcrawler is the Hungriest of all Hungry Worms. Pound for pound, these massive worms eat 1.5-3x times faster than red wigglers - which means you get 1.5-3x more worm castings in the same amount of time.

2. Worm Casting Quality

In addition to more quantity, the quality of their castings is admirable too. Besides being larger, and more visually appealing, studies have found that African Nightcrawler castings contain more nutrients than other worms when given the same feedstock.

3. Rapid Reproduction Rates

The African Nightcrawler lays about 1.6 cocoons per day, with an average of 2.7 babies per cocoon. Although this is on par with red wigglers, the incubation time of their cocoons is faster, and each worm can reach sexual maturity quicker (about 40 days), which means their reproductive power is slightly stronger than Eisenia Fetida.

4. Size and Potential for Bait and Axolotl Feed

African Nightcrawlers can reach massize sizes. When stretched out, a single worm can be over 12 inches long. I personally do not fish, but I hear that they can be used as a good worm for bait due to their size, and they don't need to be refrigerated. They can be fed to axolotls without the axolotl having to taste the foul chemicals that Eisenia Fetida releases when stressed.  

Caring for African Nightcrawlers Basics

1. Temperature Requirements

The main consideration for utilizing African Nightcrawlers is their intolerance for cold temperatures. These guys are native to West Africa, and are acclimated to warm tropical weather. Temperatures below 50°F are lethal to them, between 70°F to 80°F is ideal, and above 86°F is lethal.

2. Food Preferences

These guys seem to have an affinity for high carbon foods, especially cardboard. Your amazon shipping boxes hate to see these guys coming! These are also the only worms I've ever seen begin to wander out of the bin because of hunger. Keep them well fed!

3. Space Requirements

As nightcrawlers, these worms do like a bit more space to move. Choose a bin that's at least 6-8 inches deep with a total volume of 1 gallon for every 100 worms. African Nightcrawlers are slightly more prone to wander than other worms. Keep that in mind when picking and placing your worm bin.

Read more about African Nightcrawlers here.

Customer Reviews

Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 14 reviews.

Customer video review of African Nightcrawlers

Outstanding service. The worms always arrive looking healthy.

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Customer video review of African Nightcrawlers

They arrived in perfect condition, in the middle of summer Houston , Texas

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Customer photo review of African Nightcrawlers

Worms arrived in great condition and are thriving a few weeks later. Had zero dead worms on arrival and have had no shipping shock or dead worms since. Scott is the best in the business!!!!

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Customer photo review of African Nightcrawlers

My worms arrived intact and VERY VERY good health. Over 90% were fully grown breeding age adult worms and the total weight WELL exceeded what I ordered. Scott is the BEST in the business as far as quality and customer support. Always willing and happy to take my calls and return my texts, even though its only to talk about worms because I've not had ANY support related issues. Thanks again Scott!!! Keep up the good work 🪱😁🪱

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Customer photo review of African Nightcrawlers

So this is how live animals should be packaged and shipped. I was a little worried that they were packaged on a Monday and shipped on a Tuesday and arrived the following Monday. A lot of travel for the wormmies. They arrived in amazing condition. Couldn’t ask for healthier worms. There is so much care in the packaging it is awesome. Thank you so much. I will be purchasing again and would recommend anybody else to also. Great job

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Customer photo review of African Nightcrawlers

I’ll forever continue ordering worms from here! Great service, great hospitality, and great worms!

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Customer photo review of African Nightcrawlers

The worms adapted lovely to our bins and the family definitely love seeing the size and energy from these ANC

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Customer photo review of African Nightcrawlers

I will certainly say that the quality, amount, and size of the worms in the package has been excellent and is not reflected well in the pictures because these guys are very elusive when you put them in the bin. On a personal level specific to this species overall, the learning curve is more steep with African nightcrawlers and they are more frustrating and temperamental than red wigglers.

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Customer photo review of African Nightcrawlers

The worms looked great when they arrived, fat and healthy! Thanks again Scott

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The worms were delivered and on time. There were more worms than expected and they arrived fiesty(alive). We are about a week in since delivery and I only lost a few (due to human error, I dropped them). Happy worming everyone.

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Great customer service. The communication is outstanding compared to other sellers. I will order again from Hungry Worms.

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as long as you keep them around 75 -80degrees they are some voracious feeders!and Damn the little babies are popping out like flys!i have worked out a formula to feed them and they are eating machines!lolHowever they don’t like it when you stick a hook in em and seem to just give up quickly as bait but i did catch a few bull gills on them !KEEPEM WARM!

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The ANC I purchased from HungryWorms.com are doing great. They're actively feeding on the surface. When I turn over the beddings I was surprised to find them all over the bin feeding. I'm so glad that I got them.

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