T Molting Support Group for Noobs*

[Entity]

Sounds like it. How long have u had her? and she has always been hyper?

 

[Viscus]

It has only been a month, for both, but Trouble has never just sat still. I check on them from time to time, and have them in as close to the right size encloser as I could find. She ieven has a nice little burrow I made for her where she hides her diry lol. She just seems to perfer going for walks.

 

[Entity]

She might still be settling in.

 

[Viscus]

Maybe. I get overly worried about them. I will be adding a A. versicolor to the worry list shortly. As soon as I find one.

 

[Fuzzball79]

The Pipsqueak (LP) is currently molting . I'll check on it properly tomorrow.

 

[Viscus]

Speak of the devil, Trouble has webbed off her burrow.

 

[Entity]

sounds like molting to me.

 

[Viscus]

How long after a molt should I wait to feed them? They are .5 inches at the moment. Burry is a bit bigger.

 

[Entity]

about a week. u want their fangs to be nice and hard.

 

[Fuzzball79]

There you go, still a pipsqueak though, lol:

 

[NYX]

Came home to find, Luctreia the Lp, molted. I can not believe how much of the size diffrence this time around. Second photo is of the molt mat and the molt!

 

[Viscus]

I am honestly amazed at how they do this. Like how can they even push off the old skin, and keep all that bulk inside?

 

[Entity]

the new skin is actually larger but a still plyable. when they shed the old skin the new stretches out and hardens. And it is pretty exhausting to them. It is very amazing.

 

[NYX]

It truly is amazing they even shed their 'stomachs' when they molt. Spiders are so fascinating. Did you know T's brains are shaped like a five pointed star with a hole in the middles. Everything about arthropod physiology is so vastly different from our own and most other things that have evolved on this planet.

 

[Entity]

toIt is! ive been reading everything i can get my hands on about arthropods. It is insane how weird their composition is! I mean compared to us....to them we r the weird ones. lol they sit around saying."how the hell do they grow and keep the same skin." lol

 

[Viscus]

Don't forget about regeneration. That in itself is leaps and bonds different. the immunity to illness. Only parasites seem to affect them.

 

[Viscus]

Here is a question. How many molts to get to the center of a keepers heart?

 

[Entity]

lol. I dont know. zero. I am worried sick about spiders i dont even have yet. so...lol

 

[Viscus]

TROUBLE JUST MOLTED!!!!! On the side note she decided not to use her burrow that she had webbed up to the point she can not even get into it. So she is off to the side of it.

 

[Entity]

lol...thats cool man!