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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chubbs" data-source="post: 64229" data-attributes="member: 1084"><p>Personally I would've just left it alone and let it finish molting on its own. Touching it or attempting to move it is one of the worst possible things that could've been done. But what's done is done, so now it's just a matter of what you can do to help it recover, and I personally am not gonna be able to help you very much in that area. From all that I've learned and been told over the years ,touching or even  moving a tarantula in mid-molt usually ends up killing it. There are of course cases where the spider pulls through and eventually recovers, and I really hope this will apply to you. ICU's are meant more as a method of euthanizing invertebrates.</p></blockquote><p></p>