Thanks Ship I had read one of those threads but not the other. Last week I had visited my dad in south Georgia and someone had built him a bed out of one of the 250 gallon totes it was cut in half, his bedding was about 1 foot deep. His bedding was peat moss and peanut shells mixed together. He feeds them layer crumbles chicken feed and sprinkles it on top just a little at a time. He had drain holes cut in the bottom with several layers of wire screen over them keeping the worms in. he keeps a 15 watt light over the top and that keeps the worms from leaving. He wets it down once a week. He probably had at least 25000 worms in it a mixture of red and black wigglers. He started the bed in February with 3000.
I have some peat moss but no peanut shells and was curious what would be something good to mix in the bedding. I thought about trying rice hulls or something like that. Having his bedding 1 foot deep worked good for him , I do not have enough room for a 250 gallon tote for a worm bed and was considering using the top half of a 55 gallon drum and was trying to get an idea of how deep other people keep the bedding in their beds.
Sorry for being so long winded but this might give a better idea of what I am doing. I brought back a 1 gallon ice cream bucket full of worms and bedding probably at least 750 worms if not more to start a bed with.

Thanks.