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<blockquote data-quote="Christell Erasmus" data-source="post: 27534" data-attributes="member: 2480"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">I am glad he is doing better.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Well about your questions.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">1. You cannot really tell the time witch your tarantula will molt, their time is their own. but here is some signs that a molt is coming up soon. Most tarantulas molt while lying on its back. but some of them so molt while lying on their sides. Don't freak out. Just leave him to do his thing. NEVER touch a molting tarantula.</span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 18px">Eating Less - a tarantula getting ready for a molt will usually stop eating, sometime for as long as a few weeks before a molt.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 18px">Inactivity - a tarantula getting ready to molt will often become quite suggish.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 18px">Bald Spot - tarantulas also sometimes develop a bald spot on their abdomen that grows increasingly dark as the molt draws near (a bald spot can also occur in new world tarantulas that have been kicking off their urticating hairs). After molting, the bald spot will be gone.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 18px">Increased use of webbing (they may make a mat out of silk for molting).</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 18px">Dull coloration.</span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 18px">2. Here is a picture how a death curl looks like. Don't poke at your tarantula if it looks like this. Poking puts a lot of stress on your tarantula. Rather put him in an ICU. If your tarantula is in a death curl he wont move or walk normal. He would be kind of sluggish, abdomen would be shriveled and small.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">[ATTACH=full]5736[/ATTACH]</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">I hope this help. Just enjoy your tarantula, they are tougher than we think. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christell Erasmus, post: 27534, member: 2480"] [SIZE=5]I am glad he is doing better. Well about your questions. 1. You cannot really tell the time witch your tarantula will molt, their time is their own. but here is some signs that a molt is coming up soon. Most tarantulas molt while lying on its back. but some of them so molt while lying on their sides. Don't freak out. Just leave him to do his thing. NEVER touch a molting tarantula.[/SIZE] [LIST] [*][SIZE=5]Eating Less - a tarantula getting ready for a molt will usually stop eating, sometime for as long as a few weeks before a molt.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=5]Inactivity - a tarantula getting ready to molt will often become quite suggish.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=5]Bald Spot - tarantulas also sometimes develop a bald spot on their abdomen that grows increasingly dark as the molt draws near (a bald spot can also occur in new world tarantulas that have been kicking off their urticating hairs). After molting, the bald spot will be gone.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=5]Increased use of webbing (they may make a mat out of silk for molting).[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=5]Dull coloration.[/SIZE] [/LIST] [SIZE=5]2. Here is a picture how a death curl looks like. Don't poke at your tarantula if it looks like this. Poking puts a lot of stress on your tarantula. Rather put him in an ICU. If your tarantula is in a death curl he wont move or walk normal. He would be kind of sluggish, abdomen would be shriveled and small. [ATTACH=full]5736[/ATTACH] I hope this help. Just enjoy your tarantula, they are tougher than we think. :)[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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