Charlie's first moult

[Big Saturday]

Since we've been living together, anyway haha! Went to feed a cricket and ran into this:

Guess I'll hold off for a few days. Pretty cool, though!

 

[Nada]

Congrats! What is Charlie?

 

[Big Saturday]

A Grammostola rosea, sorry! Here's my intro thread, btw.

 

[Nada]

A Grammostola rosea, sorry! Here's my intro thread, btw.

Looks like the moult went great. Is s/he flipped back over yet? Here's to the first of many

 

[Big Saturday]

Here's to that! No, been on the back for about 45 minutes now. First found him/her like so, legs curled over in a protective fashion:

Is it possible to sex at this point?

 

[Nada]

Yeah, absolutely. Open up that exuvium and you should be able to sex it no problem.
Plessey, posted a great thread a day or two ago, on sexing Ts from exuviums.

 

[Big Saturday]

http://tarantulaforum.com/threads/how-to-sex-your-tarantula.281/

Nice, I'm thinking I better wait until Charlie is up and around before pulling the exuvium away? Hasn't been a lot of action other than the occasional leg flexing. I'm not worried to much, just am wondering if this is normal. Flipping through the Tarantula Keeper's Guide and I'm not finding much as far as what happens before a post-molt uprights itself.

 

[Atx13]

One of my favorite things about the hobby, a freshly molted Tarantula. Cant wait to see some pics of his fresh colors.

 

[Nada]

http://tarantulaforum.com/threads/how-to-sex-your-tarantula.281/

Nice, I'm thinking I better wait until Charlie is up and around before pulling the exuvium away? Hasn't been a lot of action other than the occasional leg flexing. I'm not worried to much, just am wondering if this is normal. Flipping through the Tarantula Keeper's Guide and I'm not finding much as far as what happens before a post-molt uprights itself.

I've see n a T flip back over in minutes, and I've seen a T not flip over for a day and a half. Both perfectly healthy. Just a waiting game.

 

[Big Saturday]

One of my favorite things about the hobby, a freshly molted Tarantula. Cant wait to see some pics of his fresh colors.

I'll get some ASAP!

I've see n a T flip back over in minutes, and I've seen a T not flip over for a day and a half. Both perfectly healthy. Just a waiting game.

Charlie is now up and trying to escape the container already, so no worries there. I have been squinting at the exuvium a lot and yup, like Plessey stated, some magnification would be nice haha!

Pretty awesome, funny how there's this sense of honor and patronage after a successful molt. I hope it happens every time

 

[harleyqueen]

He / she is gorgeous.

 

[Bast]

Pretty spider! Congrats on the first moult

 

[Big Saturday]

He / she is gorgeous.

Pretty spider! Congrats on the first moult

Thanks for the kind words!