Unlike alot of you, I am keeping my worms indoors in a spare bedroom with a carpeted floor. This means I have to be very careful. I did not even know my wife was aware of the worms until one day several weeks ago she asked me to get a suitcase for her as "the worms are in the way".

Some of my special considerations:

1. Other insects that might get out.

An infestation of roly poly's, fruit flies or other creatures. I wrote about finding 2 slugs on the lids of one of the bins.

2 Odor.(obvious)

3. Mess, either with feeding or harvesting.

4.Mobility. bins have to be configured to take up as little floor space as possible and be able to be moved easily.

To handle this, I am careful about what I feed. No manure brought in (although I occasionally drop in some dog crap when my pomeranian leaves me a present). No compost or leaves from outside. I originally seeded my bins with a little compost but now use worm castings. I think the slugs may have come in as eggs on some leaf/yard trash I tracked into that I swept up and dropped into the kitchen scrap bucket.

My worms get paper products- cardboard, junk mail, some office paper and a little newspaper as well as kitchen refuse and a fair amount of UCG.

I am using kitty litter buckets right now. They are only about a cubic foot in volume (9" X 11" surface and about 12" high). These are easily stacked and I have a plastic tray that allows 3 buckets to sit in a row. I had punched 1/8" holes in the bottom for drainage but I do not see the need for this in future bins.