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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jess S" data-source="post: 163312" data-attributes="member: 29302">Unfortunately providing it was eating and always had a waterdish, noone can tell you why, we'd just be guessing. On rare occasions, spiders have bad moults. Moulting (in a way like childbirth) is a dangerous and vulnerable time for spiders and sometimes things go wrong. Sounds like it got stuck in the moult. Really sorry that you lost your tarantula.Tarantulas depend on internal hydration to moult. So a waterdish should be enough.However, when my tarantulas are in premoult I always overflow the waterdish a little more than usual (I don't go overboard though - just a little extra moisture around the dish). It's not something that keepers are told to do. But I personally think that seeing as when moults get stuck, the first thing we're told to do is soften the stuck area with a wet paintbrush, that a little extra moisture in the substrate won't hurt and may even be beneficial. Spiders often know what they need and even a dryer species (I'm generalising here) given the option of having a moist area, may choose to moult there. Again this is just my own opinion.</blockquote>