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Fuzzball79

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Fuzzball79 said:
My LP just molted. It went dark just 2 days ago and today it flipped over. No longer a Pipsqueak, it seems to have caught up with my GBB and G. Actaeon.
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I think (and it might be wishful thinking) there is a slight crescent shaped flap present
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It made me lol: My mum, who is visiting us at the moment walked in on me trying to untangle the molt. She asked what I was doing, I replied that I was trying to sex the spider. She then asked "Will it let you do that? How can you keep it still like that?", not realising it was only the old molt lol.
 
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Enn49 said:
@Fuzzball79 Congrats on the moult. Told you it would catch up.
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I think I'll need a bigger boat.... ehm tub soon, lol. My Versi's still not flipped, I've not seen her for a couple of days, but every time I think, she must have done it by now, she makes an appearance, looking really plump and ready to molt.
 
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Last evening I found my Avicularia laeta, Frio had just moulted


Then this morning I discovered that my little Heteroscodra maculata, Kofi had done the honours too. When I pressed the shutter it was in the frame but I guess it had teleported into hiding.
 
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I need to run away for the weekend more often during premolts :) i came home yesterday evening to find a number of freshly molted Ts ;) So sometime between Thursday evening when they were all fed and Sunday evening the B. smithi, G. pulchripes, GBB (Flash), and B. albo (Moe) all molted. Still waiting on the rosea and a few others still, they didn't want to join the molt party.

I'll post pics of the smithi, GBB, and pulchripes tonight, Moe is still hiding in his burrow.

I wish i would have recorded feeding them last night. Missingno, the larger B. albo was playing cat and mouse with a large lateralis for a good 5 minutes until he finally caught it. Quite entertaining :)
 
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Enn49 said:
Maybe they didn't want you to see them undressing :D
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could be. the tiny little B. smithi is super dark now, almost like a G. pulchra :) I'll post pics of them tonight if they come out right. My Note 4 takes crap pics on these little guys. Maybe i can talk my son into it, his iPhone does much better focusing on them.
 
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My Genie geniculata just molted, this is the first time I've got two molts in a month from a single T! :D Its last molt was on the 2nd.
 
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Pictures!!

Best I could get of my little GBB Flash. He kept moving to the other end of his tunnel to avoid the camera.
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Scooter, my B. smithi starting to turn sling brown again so he must have molted Sunday may before we got home.
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Bling my G. pulchripes. He just started enlarging the burrow yesterday.
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That's all the pics I could get of the molt party this past weekend.
 

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