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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lawrence b" data-source="post: 237023" data-attributes="member: 1626"><p>Tarantulas need to molt to grow ,slings molt more often because their growth rate . then Juveniles . Then  you get subadult - adult  which  molt once a year  unless you have male which has its last molt  when it reaches adult .The abdomen will turn dark  and the will generally stop eating  and barricade themselves in . Sometime the molt out in open lay a web mat down  flip themselves over   and molt .</p></blockquote><p></p>