Luggy question

[OHTer]

Evening lads. Got a puzzling situation on my local worm bed. Plenty of worm there, but hardly any casting properly, casts galore, blowholes almost non existent, so making digging/pumping them, pretty darned tricky. Theyre not close enough together to trench dig, and I never do that anyway, preferring to did/pump individual casts, only seeking out the bigger worm (I generally go on the thickness of the "rope" coils in the casts). It's been like this for a couple of months now, at first I thought it was due to excerss surface water after some storms we had towards the end of last year, but when I went today, almost no surface water at all.
Any ideas whats causing this, cant remember the same situation last year

 

[curtis.dunn]

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Evening lads. Got a puzzling situation on my local worm bed. Plenty of worm there, but hardly any casting properly, casts galore, blowholes almost non existent, so making digging/pumping them, pretty darned tricky. Theyre not close enough together to trench dig, and I never do that anyway, preferring to did/pump individual casts, only seeking out the bigger worm (I generally go on the thickness of the "rope" coils in the casts). It's been like this for a couple of months now, at first I thought it was due to excerss surface water after some storms we had towards the end of last year, but when I went today, almost no surface water at all.
Any ideas whats causing this, cant remember the same situation last year

may be the cold weather and they are deeper down in the sand

 

[TOMMY NEPTUNE]

Hi, you just beat me to it Curtis....lol

 

[codseeker]

yup deeper with the cold found this out other week but trenching they was still there and no casts

 

[der1974r]

All t do with the pressure system generally speaking high pressure the casts will be up, low pressure not so many up , although the temp will play a part

 

[codseeker]

very valid point that der welcome to nesa m8

 

[der1974r]

I nice 1 coddy , but for the record it's been high for a couple of weeks now so would have t be down t the temp lately , unless y got them all on the big tides last week coddy , lol

 

[OHTer]

Thanks for the info lads, but surely there should still be a blow hole? I understand they'll be deeper un the cold/high air pressure, but it'll still be a "U" shaped burrow.....wont it?

 

[sidblank]

if they're not showing then trenching is a better idea,its often like that when i dig and by trenching you cover a lot of ground.

 

[OHTer]

if they're not showing then trenching is a better idea,its often like that when i dig and by trenching you cover a lot of ground.

I never trench dig. The lug i dig/pump on my local bed is pretty good lug (see pic) so I dont want to take more than I need. Also, to me, unless the lug is literally side by side, then the ratio of split/cut worm to whole worm you gonna get just aint worth it. Last thing I want to do is destroy the bed, cos it aint that big, but by only taking what I need just once or twice a week, it's sustainable.
I'm just interested as to know why theres no blow-holes, even deep worms srill live in U-shaped burrows....so wheres it gone, I wonder