Your nose will tell you.

What kind of set up do you have? Any chance of drilling more holes? What is your bedding?

It probably wouldn't hurt to throw in a little crushed eggshell (powdered or as fine as you can get it). Should help to neutralize the acidity, and the grit may aid in the worms' digestion of other material.

I got a 15 gal tub and I drilled 1/4 inch holes all over the side and bottom. I also drilled 4 1 inch holes on 2 sides and 8 1 inch holes on the bottom. The tub also sits on the tub lid. I have another tub with the same configurations sitting on top.

I used wet cardboard as my bedding. I checked this morning, there is no more water puddling at the bottom but the smell is still there.

How many worms do you have? A watermellon rind is alot of food i don't like to add more than the weight of the worms per week especially in a new bin

1 pound so about 1000 worms. I know I put in too much food. First worm bin I'm learning.

I'm just starting and learning, too. I've had my worm bin maybe 6 weeks, and I had to start with only about 50 worms.

I overfed the heck out of those guys at first. They haven't come close to catching up, even now. I thought about maybe throwing the first couple of feeds into the outdoor compost and leaving them with just bedding for a while, but I decided against it. I keep hearing that worms thrive best with neglect, just stay out of their way. So I've been neglecting them, for the most part.

I only check on my guys 3-4 times per week. All I do is maintain moisture level, look at worm behaviour for a minute or two, give it the sniff test, and add some clean bedding if it's beginning to smell bad. One time I broke up some junk mail bedding clumps that had solidified into two inch nuggets of hardened wood pulp, but that's it.

The worms are doing fine with that treatment, so far. They're not trying to escape, they're active but seem to be calm and deliberate about it, they're leaving cocoons, and with their isopod neighbors they're slowly but surely wearing down the bedding and old feed. Smells are minimal, the bin usually smells like damp soil and that's all.

I did sprinkle a little bit of crushed eggshell into the system after I got my makeshift grinder working, two days ago. I noticed about half of it has already gone missing. I wonder if my worms will eat faster, now that I've provided them with grit for dentures.

Any more when I add watermelon rinds it is only the rinds. I do my best to sqeeze out all the water I can before adding it otherwise water will drain thru my factory 360 , I also add more paper and lay the rinds on top so the paper will soak most of it up.

I started 2 years ago with about the same amount of worms. I have 1 1/2 pounds now. That was in a 5 gallon bucket. I moved up to a large tote today! Next 2 years should be interesting.