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Broken leg pieces.

sym

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Hi guys/girls.
So I thought I would look into my B.Emilia
Enclosure and I have found a couple of segments of leg pieces at the entrance where she has pushed the substrate to the corner of the enclosure.
I'm thinking she moulted in her hide . She was out last night and I watched her eat for the first time in 7 week. So I'm quessing she moulted a while back ?

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My OBT did that, she just left me bits of crumpled up exo pushed outside of her hide and used some in the covering of the hide.
 

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Sounds like she molted in her burrow and was doing a bit of housekeeping. :)

Do you have any pics?
 

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Hi Enn49.. I've only seen her 5 times in 7 weeks. And I've seen her eat once. Last night she jumped half her body length up the side of the enclosure after a cricket lol..

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Hi tomoran.
Pics of the mouted T? Or leg parts? .

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The bits of leg may have potentially been buried underneath the substrate within the hide. When I cleaned out my G. Rosea I found the odd exo leg amongst it all.
My guess is that when your T moved substrate it brought a part of old exo along with it.
 

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This is the first day we got her.
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This was yesterday
 
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Wow...she's gorgeous. Although it's difficult to tell, her abdomen still looks pretty plump in the second photo. Looks like R.NUTT is spot on and she dug up an old molt. How long have you had her for?
 

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Hi Tomoran . Since the 29th of November .maybe she was already in premoult when I got her because I've seen very little of her plus I watched her eat for the first time last night since getting her..

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Hi Tomoran . Since the 29th of November .maybe she was already in premoult when I got her because I've seen very little of her plus I watched her eat for the first time last night since getting her..

Sym

Okay, then...I wasn't sure if you had her for a while, or if this was a new acquisition. In that case, that molt was probably fairly new, and she was likely in premolt when you got her. Congrats on the molt!
 

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