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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 130900" data-attributes="member: 27883">Finding this forum and checking out all the enclosure and animal pics has inspired me to do more for my spiders. I have a 10 year old female G. pulchra and she's lived in a 5 gallon cube for about the last 8 years. I decided to move her up to a 10 gallon tank and upgrade some of her furnishings. I have all the stuff laying around unused, so why not? I finished the new enclosure and went to retrieve my girl to put her in it, and this is what I found:[ATTACH=full]30105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]30106[/ATTACH] At 10 years old, she doesn't molt very often anymore, so this is pretty neat. t tried to take a close up pic and when I looked at my pic on the computer later on, I noticed something. Check out the fangs:[ATTACH=full]30107[/ATTACH] I've been keeping Ts for more than 30 years, but I don't ever recall noticing this before. I see freshly molted white roaches all the time, and joke with new people about them being a rare "albino roach…", but I can't believe I never noticed the fangs in this state before.Here she is just a few days prior to this molt:[ATTACH=full]30108[/ATTACH] Its so difficult to get a good pic. That black velvet just sucks up all the light.Looks like she'll be staying in the old enclosure for just a little while longer...</blockquote>