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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor" data-source="post: 212048" data-attributes="member: 38203">Got three today, all of them rather unexpected.<img src="https://i.imgur.com/HyZQkpa.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Poecilotheria formosa.  This one took down a cricket the other day without hesitation.  Today, I come home to a fresh molt.  There's a nice and noticeable size difference too.  <img src="https://i.imgur.com/NnxiZQ8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />None of my Avicularias are voracious eaters.  They just kind of hang out in the web tubes and don't do much beyond that.  Crickets go in, then disappear at some point.  They continue to live, despite feeling like I'm a strong gust of wind away from finding them all passed away.  This one, however, is very freshly molted.  It's still very, very shiny.  It almost looks like a large, shiny black widow at the moment, only slightly less spindly.<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2qpuTDV.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />If the molt wasn't in the enclosure, I wouldn't know anything changed with my Grammostola pulchripes.  It looks no larger than before.  In fact, it kind of looks smaller.  Maybe after a day or two it'll look more substantial, but I'm having a hard time believing the molt is from this specific spider.  He could have hijacked another molt while I wasn't looking.  You're not fooling me, buster.</blockquote>