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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarantula Trooper" data-source="post: 242557" data-attributes="member: 37740"><p>Hello again Annalisa! When I know I have ( or suspect more like it) a T about to go to pre molt I like to feed hornworms for the moisture content. This in MHO helps build up internal moisture levels to hopefully aid them with their molt! Raising external tank humidity won't help. Dryer species certainly don't help as where their from their is little external humidity! Having good gut loaded, moisture laden prey is a good way to go! Again, just my opinion, is vary your feeders as well. Crickets mixed with Dubia, Super worms and if slings, juvies mealworms! Bad molts happen. I've had 2 bad ones! The first was my M. Balfori! Lost limbs and had a really bad jacked up leg that turned up towards the sky. Nursed her back and she has all her parts again and can hardly tell she had any distress! My Phormingochilus Arboricola not so much! Her shed stuck around her abdomen. Quite a bit around the spinnerets! She was gone  less than a week later. Abdomen split. Looked like internal dried silk! Still completely devastated over her passing! If you keep a lot of T's it will happen sooner or later it is just how bad is it. It does, though, make you appreciate when you're Spoods molt good and they look good after! Relief indeed!! Happy Spoodering!</p></blockquote><p></p>