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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Venomous Vixen" data-source="post: 173407" data-attributes="member: 32312"><p>I kinda understand what you are going through. My female OBT had a bad molt recently where her legs were stuck in her molt. I had moved her into a small enclosure until I figured out what I could do to help her. I got the molt off of all but two of her legs that it was stuck on the most. I used tweezers to pinch her legs so she could drop them because I was really worried about her molt pulling her legs off and her bleeding to death. After I got her to drop both of her legs ( first one was easy, quick. The second not so much.) I made sure she had water and put her in the darkest corner of my cubbies where I keep my enclosures, and forced myself to not move her or mess with her for two days. It was so hard because I wanted to check on her every 5 minutes but stress can make an already bad situation worse, so I let her be. She’s still alive. Her legs are really mangled looking, and her pedipalps are bent, but she’s still alive and I’m really, really hoping she’ll molt again and then she’ll be fine. I have to prekill all her food and tong feed her because she can’t really grab onto anything especially anything that’s trying to run away since her pedipalps and legs are all bent. But she does eat and she’s still alive, and throwing treat postures up at me every chance she gets.</p></blockquote><p></p>