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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Casey K." data-source="post: 175479" data-attributes="member: 1090">If that's the way the tarantula looks now (in your pic) it may have already molted.  Its exo looks fairly fresh and its abdomen is small.  Has it burrowed at all?   Have you tried looking carefully through the enclosure to see if you can find a molt hidden somewhere?  You'd be surprised at where they place them when they're done molting and ready to clean house, lol.  If the tarantula has not molted, I suggest feeding it more because as I stated previously, its abdomen is skinny.   I would feed it at least 2 adult crickets per week to fatten it up.I just looked at your pictures thoroughly.  That spider has already molted.  It's exoskeleton is somewhere in there.  It's bigger now than what it was in your first picture.  The abdomen is no longer dark and bald.</blockquote>