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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 226957" data-attributes="member: 29323">Not today but last weekend & not a good molt for her.Our Phormictopus cancerides was on her back & at least halfway through her molt last Friday night. On Saturday it was clear she needed some help, as she was still in her old molt. So with a little help from a cotton bud, some tepid water, & a pair of tweezers I slowly removed what I thought was all of the old molt from her. Having removed the old molt,  it looked like, other than a single spinneret, she had come through it unscathed. She was clearly stressed & spent Saturday with legs under her in a corner.On Sunday she looked much happier.  And it was either  Sunday or Monday that we spotted some more of her old molt still stuck to her, this just lifted off her, no water needed & when that was removed her missing spinneret appeared.Given what she went through, I did not like to use the word molted, until I knew she was well past it & all was well.Other molts this week were a  T blondi & a G pulchra. Both unsexed Juvi's.<a href="https://ibb.co/yYYf51M" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/3MMrWq8/01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>