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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adraps11" data-source="post: 64674" data-attributes="member: 4220"><p>She's flipped over now and is resting. I did take the tongs and put them beside her whenever she tried to flip back over again, she gripped onto them and made the flip. In the period after molting do the T's continually pump blood through their bodies? I just never noticed this with my rose hair, because I was much younger and missed the vital hours after the molt. From watching cicadas hatch, they pump the blood through their bodies, which expands the body, making them larger when their exoskeleton hardens. Right now it looks like her front legs are thicker than her hind legs. It looks as though the blood and color is making it's way from the front of the body to the back. She has a much thicker bulky looking carapace than she did, in the previous skin! The abdomen looks like it will be the last thing to expand. After the threat of a predator has gone away she has stretched out a bit. Good. She was quite irritated when I intervened, but after seeing her do her hundredth 360 in 8 hours I had to help her on her feet. I didn't want the exoskeleton to harden while she was flipped, it would have crippled her front legs.</p></blockquote><p></p>