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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PamCz" data-source="post: 45165" data-attributes="member: 3784">Absolutely awesome looking T's, sym!!  The pulchra almost looks dark green!  Very cool! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />And speaking of molts...I just found one in my P. rufilata's enclosure! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> It was 1.5"...can't wait to see it now!  (3 am flashlight raid...here I come!)  I was thinking it must've happened last night or this morning, but....the molt looks a little too crispy.  Weird thing, too, is I didn't see the molt last night when I went in to feed them at about 11 pm (yes, late night).  And my rufilata took the cricket from the tongs.  I saw it attack it, and start eating.  Now, there's a molt in there this am.  Ugh!  This sling hiding behavior is making me a little crazy...<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />So...what I think happened is the molt happened a while (few days to a week) ago, when I noticed it didn't eat the cricket I put in there last week.  Then, the T probably moved the molt around, and I just now saw it.  So, that's why it would eat last night...I think.  lol  Unless a Poecilotheria will eat up until the moment it molts (uh, nope)...that must be what happened.  I guess.Speaking of....do any of you have any T's that will keep eating fairly close to the molt?  I've heard A. avics will eat up to a few days before they molt, but I don't know for sure -- haven't seen it myself.  I have an A. avic with a balding butt and a little darkness setting in.  Still eating for now.</blockquote>

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