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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adraps11" data-source="post: 65491" data-attributes="member: 4220"><p>Today it's been 8 days since my "oklahoma Brown" female molted, I'd say she's at or near 4 inches in legspan, yet still doesn't have the stocky body type that's typically described with the species. By examing the exuvia I can easily tell it's a female, but right now it's body still resembles an immature A. Anax/hentzi I've noticed the final colors spreading from the front of the body to the back. The last two back legs are still black, while the rest are a mix of black and charcoal grey with brown hairs. This is just what I can see from the entrance to the cave. It does look like quite the color change. The carapace is more of a charcoal grey with bits of bronze thrown in, while the abdomen is still black with red hairs. I wonder if I should offer up a beetle? I'm wanting to wait until the T is out in the open, but with this species that could be weeks. Again the color change has been quite drastic, you'd mistake it for a cross between g pulchra and a. anax. lol I've read they get similar color morphs from A. Hentzi in Arkansas, they can vary wildly depending on the location they are found in, which is why there is so much confusion in the Aphonopelma genus! A. Hentzi can be a chameleon from what I've read about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>