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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TarantulaMamma" data-source="post: 242552" data-attributes="member: 50759">As a relatively new T owner (I now have 3), I recently went through my first moult with my Brachypelma emilia. He was ensconced in his cave (a decorative sandstone tube) for about 2 weeks prior and had webbed up one end with a bolus of substrate. Then last week I looked into the open end of the cave and it looked like there were 2 spiders; the moult was on its back.  Freaky at first, like he had a twin.  I was able to carefully extract the moult and inspect it.  A leg detached in the examination process but it was quite a remarkable structure!  The spooder is doing great and back to grabbing feeders from my long tongs, and spending time at the water dish when not calmly walking around the enclosure, bigger and bolder!</blockquote>