coco worm question

[dillycheeze]

my new coco worm is out of its mind releasing in the neighborhood of 100 brown seedlike-looking pellets every day.....i just don't see how something can produce this much waste....especially a filter feeder......anyone have in depth knowledge of this?

 

[LeslieH]

Part of what you're seeing is "pseudofeces". The feather dusters don't eat everything they catch. All of the particles are moved down the radioles (= feathers) to the mouth region. Tasty bits in the right size range are eaten. The rest are bound up with mucus into pellets & discarded.