3 T's in pre-molt

[HungryGhost]

Looks like I have three T's in pre-molt at once. My LP is darkening up and is off food, my GBB is off food, and my Avic avic has sealed off her web tubes and is dark and shiny. Now it's time for the waiting game.

 

[Flud]

Very cool! I cant wait for my Pulchripes' first molt in my possession. Other than a lack of appetite and darker colors, are there any other tell-tale signs?

 

[HungryGhost]

Very cool! I cant wait for my Pulchripes' first molt in my possession. Other than a lack of appetite and darker colors, are there any other tell-tale signs?

Usually the best sign is being off food. My G. pulchripes fasted for two weeks before her last molt, and for ten days post molt.

 

[Christell Erasmus]

Is it strange that my tarantulas will still eat one day and then molt the next day? I feed all my tarantulas once a week but none of them seem to go off food before a molt...

 

[HungryGhost]

Is it strange that my tarantulas will still eat one day and then molt the next day? I feed all my tarantulas once a week but none of them seem to go off food before a molt...

The T's I have in premolt now are slings/juvies that I have been kind of power feeding. I think that may have something to do with it.

 

[adz07]

My juvie has been off food for a week or two now I suspect pre-molt but will have to wait and see

 

[LauraMI]

Could this GBB be pre-molt? On 5 1/2" crickets a week & hasn't slowed on that, but it clogged up both entrances of its web with coir. All I see are 2 or 3 feet sticking out the top. I was holding off on food until I saw more of it out than toes.

 

[adz07]

The gbb is such a beautiful looking spider hope my usual supplier can get me one

 

[HungryGhost]

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Could this GBB be pre-molt? On 5 1/2" crickets a week & hasn't slowed on that, but it clogged up both entrances of its web with coir. All I see are 2 or 3 feet sticking out the top. I was holding off on food until I saw more of it out than toes.

I find it hard to tell if my GBB is in pre-molt by looks. To me the color does change as much. The best was is if ignores food.

 

[Gavin van den Berg]

My B. Vagans sling went without food for 43 days and then started eating again. It hasn't molted in almost 4 months. So I guess it depends from T to T. But I'm pretty sure it will molt as soon as it starts to warm up here, which isn't too far off. I get really excited when those abdomens go black and shiny though... Imminent Molt!

 

[LauraMI]

I find it hard to tell if my GBB is in pre-molt by looks. To me the color does change as much. The best was is if ignores food.

Yeah, its coloring isn't too different but I'm worried to offer it food. The driftwood it lives in has too many nooks a cricket can hide in. Kiwi is still a sling, less than two inches.
In my situation, what would you do. I would feed when I saw sitting just outside its door; now it's hidden, making me want to wait on food.

 

[MatthewM1]

I would just hold off a bit. I find that when a T that's usually out and about becomes reclusive a molt is usually coming up.

 

[LauraMI]

Very cool! I cant wait for my Pulchripes' first molt in my possession. Other than a lack of appetite and darker colors, are there any other tell-tale signs?

My 1/4" pulchripes sling went two weeks w/o eating, took a pre-killed cricket, then disappeared for 5 weeks. On the breeders suggestion, I dug it up. It had molted in that time though I assumed it had died.

 

[HungryGhost]

Just checked my GBB she's on her back

 

[HungryGhost]

And my GBB has molted
She's at the stage where her legs are completely blue, but she still has bold dark patterning on her opisthosoma.

 

[Tomoran]

Awesome! I love when my GBBs molt as the color changes are amazing to watch.