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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bugmom" data-source="post: 64569" data-attributes="member: 4273">Yes, she molted at least once, and just a few months after I found her.Expos are hit and miss as to reputable tarantula breeders/sellers. They're primarily reptile expos, but there's enough people who keep both inverts and reptiles that inverts are usually found at reptile expos. However, some reptile breeders get into tarantulas as a kind of side gig or hobby, and sometimes just don't know as much about the inverts as they do their reptiles. And sometimes tarantulas just fail to thrive no matter who they are bought from.</blockquote>