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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silly" data-source="post: 172187" data-attributes="member: 31687">Why does it seem like whenever i rehouse or just clean up my slings enclosures, they molt very soon afterwards...      I have about 25 slings, and i knew like 6 of them were in premolt ( fat/shiny abdomen, dont eat etc. ) , but they just werent molting.  I have them in small dram bottles and they were pretty dirty so i decided to clean them up by ripping out all their webbings and adding new substrate with a light mist before putting them back in.  This was yesterday am....Today, like 3 of them molted already, and 1 more versicolor is currently upsides down in a new web she spun molting also!   <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" />Does molting have anything to do with changing their enclosures and cleaning everything up?</blockquote>