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T Molting Support Group for Noobs*

kormath

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Ive been quite lucky with all my molts from my Ts, only my juvi stirmi stayed burrowed after a molt, the rest came straight out after. My juvi g.pulchra didnt even use the hide, it molted right in the middle of its enclosure lol
I had to redo a few enclosures, i got tired of finding the molts weeks after when they decided to push them through their substrate doorway. Now all but the G. pulchripes -Bling -burrow down along hte side of the enclosure so i can check on them easily ;) I gotta wait for her to molt and open her doorway and then i'll change up her enclosure to do that also.
 

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I had to redo a few enclosures, i got tired of finding the molts weeks after when they decided to push them through their substrate doorway. Now all but the G. pulchripes -Bling -burrow down along hte side of the enclosure so i can check on them easily ;) I gotta wait for her to molt and open her doorway and then i'll change up her enclosure to do that also.

I am thinking about re doing some of mine. Was thinking I would put the small clay flower pots in and bury them about half way. Then the Ts could only dig so deep and I could still see inside.
 

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I am thinking about re doing some of mine. Was thinking I would put the small clay flower pots in and bury them about half way. Then the Ts could only dig so deep and I could still see inside.
That or they'll just burrow somewhere else ;) I have some 1" diameter plastic vials i bury in the substrate in the center of my enclosures (4"x4"), forces them to burrow along the walls where they can be seen. I think it was @Kymura that gave me that idea.
 

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Buddha, my son's G. rosea molted Sunday.
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I'd guess about an inch now
 
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Stromatopelma calceatum, Peanut, has moulted today and dumped its old exo on top of the water bowl. Another one that will probably need a move to its adult home soon.
 

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This past week.
A genic,
G rosea,
H incei x 4,
P irminia x2,
LP,
GBB and B vegan molted... Busy bunch.
Think my pokie babies (x3) molted as they look larger but can't find the exo.

One of my irminia is twice the size of the other. Makes me sad...I don't want my baby to be a short lived male :.(
 
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molting weekend! :)

Marley, my son's GBB molted Friday as well as his D. pentaloris "Hobbes" while i was out of town at a golf tourney. I keep asking him to send me the pics he took. i'll post them later when i get them.

Also molted Friday my PZB Alicia. I thought she molted earlier but it must have been coco fibers i was seeing. Her molt was on the little cork bark chip i put in her vial and she was relaxing beside it in her new zombie skin. But when i went to pick the molt out the whole little bit of substrate, cork bark, and Alicia came up with it. So she got a new larger home in one of my condiment cups.

Here she is in her new skin.
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Moe, my B. Albo, also molted Friday, i couldn't get a pick of him as he's hiding in the tunnel behind the molt.
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