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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leepbby" data-source="post: 215854" data-attributes="member: 37046">Good afternoon, I am not sure that there is any help for my mature male A. chalcodes. I was not expecting him to get to this point but here we are. He decided to go into molt position about 12am this night and I just assumed he would not make it out but at the off chance I kept an eye on him. For quite a while he just lay there but at about 5am this morning he started to actively molt. I was surprised that he had as much strength that he was doing very well but I knew his pedipalps were definitely a reason for concern. Pushing foward he never got his pedipalps out so it looks as though he's popped them off. What the issue seems to be is that where he decided to molt did not give him a lot of room for the VERY long length of his new legs. He managed to get out from what I can tell looks like 5 of them leaving 3 still being a problem. I am not sure what to do at this point. I've tried moistening the legs with a paintbrush.  Adding humidity to the enclosure and lightly wetting him with water. Its now 3:20pm and I'm not sure if I should be doing anything more to help him he is still very active and moving around so he doesn't seem as though he is going to pass away but I hate to see him like this at this point in this stage of his life. Please any suggestions would be very helpful. Heres are some pics to help understand. The circled one is a close up of 1 of the legs half out but looks folded over.</blockquote>

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