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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jenniferinfl" data-source="post: 198701" data-attributes="member: 37398">My C. versicolor spiderling molted. I'm pretty relieved that it made it to a molt. I got this one over a month ago and it hasn't seemed able to successfully eat. I was giving it fruit flies and it chased them a bit, but, didn't eat them. Then I was offering prekilled crickets right into the web tube and it jumped on them for like a second and then gave up. I'm not sure what was wrong with it, but, it had a pretty small abdomen and wasn't either willing or able to eat. I don't know if it had a sucking stomach issue or a fang issue or what. Or maybe it was just already in premolt despite being on the thin side.  I guess this molt could have gone as badly as the previous, but, it made it out of the molt with all it's legs and stuff, so, fingers crossed this fixed whatever was wrong. It did manage to put on a little bit of size too, so, hopefully in a few days it will actually be able to eat.</blockquote>