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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adraps11" data-source="post: 64783" data-attributes="member: 4220"><p>I hope your B. Smithi goes through a successful molt. It is quite fascinating to watch the process, then see all the color changes they go through in the days after the molt. On the second day after the molt my A. Hentzi's Carapace is back to being more of a tan/blonde color, the abdomen has lightened, but is still a dark chocolate color, the abdomen hairs are red, and the legs have been the biggest change, as they are still holding at a dark coffee color, as opposed to the simple light brown they were before the molt. Right now she has herself spread out like a fan, growing as much as possible. She's being camera shy, and I don't want some freshly made barbed hairs lodged in my eyes, so I'll leave her be. lol I just check up on her with a flashlight every few hours. All of my uneaten mealworm beetles and dubia roaches that I bought at the beginning of premolt are on death row. Dead bugs crawling! This tarantula would eat the two dubia roaches and the four beetles all in one day if it could. Realistically it would eat the two large gut loaded dubia roaches within 24 hours. Very unlike the previous Rosehair I had.</p></blockquote><p></p>