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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nunua" data-source="post: 153275" data-attributes="member: 4947">You have gotten good advice and I'm happy to see that you have followed them.Pretty much every active member have seen me saying this, but it's the easiest way to make new people with their slings to feel a bit easier for them not eating or molting <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />So here's my Brachypelma auratum sling. It had a molt cycle of 72 days during which it refused from food for 57 days. It's doing all fine and being an active little kid.<img src="https://puu.sh/DGFs9/723613bcda.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />What comes to your tarantula not moving, just let it be and make sure it has fresh water all the time - Also, a gentle nudge shouldn't have hurt it so no worry about that. Two of my slings (Brachypelma albopilosum and Brachypelma albiceps) are true petrocks when in premolt. Yet it's good to remember that you have chosen to own Grammostola spp. they are known to be pet rocks who often do nothing but sit still, except when they're hungry <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>