T Molting Support Group for Noobs*

[Fuzzball79]

Fingers crossed for a smooth molt, Pam.
Must be LP molting day today, as my Pipsy has surprised me, too (he only had a big meal a couple of days ago). He/she's still on his/her back stretching those legs.

 

[PamCz]

Thanks! All went well!

just left town for a day trip, but before I left I got a pic of my LP on its back, just post molt.
Yay for LP Molt Day!!

 

[Enn49]

@Fuzzball79 and @PamCz Congrats both on LP moults. One of mine, Pip, is looking a bit patchy so I guess there'll be another soon.

 

[Fuzzball79]

Here's mine: I had to help him out a little as he had the "head" and bottom piece stuck on his behind. Amazingly he held still for me using the tweezers and the shed came off smoothly.

Ghost spider

Still a pipsqueak

 

[PamCz]

Nice, @Fuzzball79! Cute little things....baby T's.

@Enn49 Thanks! The more LP molts, the merrier!

 

[Enn49]

Not my LP yet but my biggest B. albopilossum, Coco decided to do the honours last night. It's the first time Coco has made a moult mat so it must be growing up.

My first view of it last night






And this morning

 

[PamCz]

Nice!! Always fun to find a molt.

 

[Enn49]

I'll be honest I was so relieved to find all had gone well when I checked this morning. I was topping up water bowls when I found Coco upside down and I must have startled it as it flipped back over - not good mid-moult. Luckily all ended well.

 

[PamCz]

@Enn49 That is one of my biggest fears re: molting -- that my T will be startled and move mid-molt! VERY glad to hear it went well.

I've got an Euathlus pulcherrimaklaasi that has been buried in her burrow for nearly a month now. I'm getting worried....of course. I keep going to the lid and smelling. Sad, but if she died...she'd stink, right? I just don't want to check on her, disturb her, but I'd like to know she's still alive. I think it's time to go do a "peer in the hole" again. Perhaps, I'll get lucky and see something this time. I'll let ya know.....

 

[Enn49]

@PamCz It happened to me once before too, with my P. met when it was little.

My OBT is the one that hides away for long periods i.e. months and I used to worry about her but I don't any more as long as food keeps disappearing. If I'm lucky she'll kick her moult out almost in tact but more often I find odd bits in the wall of her cave so I don't even know how often she's moulted in the 15 months that I've had her.

Yes, I believe they do smell.

 

[PamCz]

@Enn49 It can be fairly nerve wracking!

So, I just checked on Indigo, and she's alive. Opened the enclosure, opened up her burrow a little and lightly touched her (she wasn't upside-down)...& she moved. Whew. I looked around her burrow and I see no molt, so I think she's still premolt. Can't really tell. I'll put a cricket in there tonight before bed and see what happens. Probably will find a live cricket in the morning.

Edit to add: her burrow is a plastic exoterra burrow... When I say she's buried in her burrow, I mean she built a huge dirt mound in front of it, sealed the TINY 1 cm opening with web. So, I just broke thru the web and slightly enlarged the hole, so I could see. No major burrow destruction. lol... Also, she's about a 4" specimen. I figure if she's hiding now, after not using her burrow EVER in the first few months I've had her, it must be molt related.

 

[Enn49]

@PamCz I'm glad she's ok.

 

[PamCz]

Ok...I have a pic of MY female (fairly sure) LP in her new dress. Yes, I was able to sex the molt! Pic of that, too. Looks like a little semi-circle sperm sac to me, between the two upper book lungs. Anybody think differently? If so, let me know!

And, also, her previous dress size was 3.5", so she's definitely about 4.5" now. Nice & docile. Very cooperative in her rehouse.

 

[Fuzzball79]

Congratulations! The pic is a bit blurry, but with a little imagination I think, you can see a little crescent shape between the book lungs, yay.

She's very pretty.

 

[sym]

My T.Lagunas moulted

 

[Fuzzball79]

My GBB moulted over night, yay:

 

[DeanoMolly]

As I put this up, my little lector is nearly home n dry

 

[DeanoMolly]

Anyone no what's happened to the abdomen on the old skin??

 

[sym]

My
Phormictopus sp. "Green"
has moulted .
Happy with its size

 

[Enn49]

Looks good