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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johnnyp1987" data-source="post: 67444" data-attributes="member: 4257"><p>Well my b.smithi has been in heavy premolt for almost 2 weeks now, and whilst i was doing my maintenece on my other Ts tonight i caught it out of the corner of my eye doing some webbing. It has been sat in the same area of the enclosure for the past 3 weeks and ive never actually seen it move until tonight, its just changed positions at different times ive checked (facing the rear, then its turned to the front, then back to the rear etc). So im hoping its laying down its mat to molt. Now i would love to sit and watch all night but im at work at 6am so i cant. Anyway my question is, has anyone ever seen a T flip over to molt. You read all the time that people have either missed a molt or seen it molt but ive never heard of anyone seeing it flip over to start the molt. Abit random question because most people want to catch the actual molt process but im rather intregued as to what they do to flip over [emoji3]</p></blockquote><p></p>