What do you do with the skins from a moult?

[DalilahBlue]

Do you toss them? Save them?

If you save them, how?

I was thinking a nice shadow box display showing the progression of each of my babies over time with each skin pinned and labeled with date and such....

 

[Nada]

Garbage.

 

[jtrux]

Ditto.

 

[DalilahBlue]

Gah. See, this is the difference between men and women...

 

[Nada]

Gah. See, this is the difference between men and women...

women are hoarders...?

 

[DalilahBlue]

Maybe it is just my inner Biologist that wants to display these...you have to admit a shadow box with skins from .5in to maturity would be an awesome wall display...

 

[Nada]

Maybe it is just my inner Biologist that wants to display these...you have to admit a shadow box with skins from .5in to maturity would be an awesome wall display...

It would.

 

[Bast]

I think that shadow boxes would be very cool...I might actually steal this idea once Karina decides to moult. Awesome from both a scientific and a sentimental angle

 

[harleyqueen]

I generally take mine to the stables, to work, to the shops, anywhere else I go and poke them in peoples faces while saying "look at money spiders coat" or "flamenco moulted" regardless of if the people concerned actually like spiders or not. I sellotaped one to my shoulder once and spent a day in work freaking people out.

 

[harleyqueen]

women are hoarders...?

I'm a hoarder with a mean streak

 

[Atx13]

I keep them for awhile, then they start falling apart and i throw them away.

 

[harleyqueen]

I keep them for awhile, then they start falling apart and i throw them away.

Probably someone on e bay would buy them......

 

[Atx13]

Probably someone on e bay would buy them......

lol, thats weird. But your probably right.

 

[AngelOtter]

I keep then all in little containers, labeled with the date it was shed. I'm a bit OCD with my animals. But I also use then when I teach nature camp, as an educational thing.

 

[DalilahBlue]

See guys, my shadow box idea isn't that off. And welcome AO.

 

[harleyqueen]

I got a new one for my collection baby hamlet moulted today I have been expecting it for ages but he must have wriggled out really quickly as I missed the while thing. He is a bit bigger than my other b smithis ( although hercules is catching him up in the big belly competition. ) he is lovely, I will look tomorrow to see if he is stripier yet will leave him in the dark for now.

 

[AngelOtter]

Thank you
I think a shadowbox is a cool idea, would be interesting to see.

 

[Bast]

I got a new one for my collection baby hamlet moulted today I have been expecting it for ages but he must have wriggled out really quickly as I missed the while thing. He is a bit bigger than my other b smithis ( although hercules is catching him up in the big belly competition. ) he is lovely, I will look tomorrow to see if he is stripier yet will leave him in the dark for now.

Grats on Hamlet's moult!

 

[harleyqueen]

Grats on Hamlet's moult!

Thanks a lot. The little precious was laying on it when I went to work, looks like he's been throwing it around while I was out. From what I can see of him he looks a lot bigger now, just when hercules was catching up.