My aunt and uncle owned a bait shop for about 20 years. The guys are right on about the minnows keep them cool. I like to leave out a couple gallons of tap water to be used to make ice for the minnow bucket (don't use store ice with chlorine). ALWAYS add ice to minnows and cool slowly. In summertime I will try to drop it to about 45 or 50. Boy do the minnows wake up when they hit the warm water. On the minnows, use a product called Jungle Life or Bait Life. It is blue and has chlorine/chloramine remover in it as well as salts and antibiotics. One other thing not mentioned. If the minnows are crowded, and when we get thunderstorms, they will sometimes ball up in the corners. Either set the bubbler where it will bubble through them, or you can pour water from the tank (letting it plunge into the water, thus adding oxygen to the water). When they congegate they deplete the oxygen in the water in the area and they start dying which depletes the oxygen even more.

On worm storage. Keep them cool, fridge if they are the ones from the store. Wet, not soak some newspaper and lay on top. When the box goes to smelling from the worm poop, replace with damp peat moss and a new piece of newspaper. They will last many months if you take care of them.