Dude... Moult Already!

[VanessaS]

One of my E. campestratus. The other one has moulted, but this one is holding out. For what? I have no clue, but they need to moult already!

This is how they respond to me telling them to moult...

And my chub-o-rama G. pulchra. Again, the other one has moulted and this one is holding out.

 

[VanessaS]

Someone suggested that I up the humidity. What are your thoughts?

 

[Meludox]

Raising the the temperature of the the room they're in to around 80 degrees would definitely help, and probably guarantee their molts very soon.

And that G. pulchra is blowing my mind! I don't think I've ever seen a spider so heavily in pre-molt before.

 

[VanessaS]

And that G. pulchra is blowing my mind! I don't think I've ever seen a spider so heavily in pre-molt before.

You don't think there could be anything wrong with them? I mean, they are extremely active and are always wandering around when I open their home up to check on them. They ate recently as well. I hope nothing is wrong. Other guys have been moulting, with no problems, and they are all kept the same way.
They are pretty unbelievable, eh. They're going to be six inches by the time they moult.

 

[Kymura]

They each do things when they are ready, I swore a couple of mine were going to split. I was half afraid to keep feeding them

 

[Rmac88]

Holy crap they look like ticks about to pop!

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[VanessaS]

Guess who moulted today? Yahooooo!

 

[Kymura]

Guessing the pulchra?

 

[VanessaS]

Guessing the pulchra?

Yes!
Little darling they are...

 

[Meludox]

Nice! Mine is roughly two inches and her last molt was 3 months ago. I think she might??? be in pre-molt finally but I can't tell through her giant mirror patch. When she molted last she was beautiful shiny black but now she's gone to brown.

 

[Kymura]

Yes!
Little darling they are...
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Awwwwww!

 

[VanessaS]

The little E. campestratus followed suit this morning!

 

[Psyrocke]

They each do things when they are ready, I swore a couple of mine were going to split. I was half afraid to keep feeding them

I feel like that about one of my guys! I'll post a pic either in the gallery or my pic thread eventually...>_> He's so fat.

 

[Kymura]

The little E. campestratus followed suit this morning!

Awesome they were just waiting for the right moment

 

[kormath]

Congrats! My G. pulchra still won't molt, and now he's gone and pissed me off. Here I was waiting for him to molt feeding him once a week, taking out the roach when he didn't eat it. Sunday i fed him like usual, and the little pinhead ran through the crack between the hide and the wall, and the Lil Bastitch (my new name for the pulchra) ate it. Pounced on it with a ferocity like my GBB after a molt.

So now i've removed the door to his hide (you can all scold me later ) and when i fed him last night the roach ran into the hide and became room service. Made me wonder if these G. pulchra do a hibernation thing in the winter months, cause he's eating fine now and hasn't shown any further signs of premolt.

 

[VanessaS]

Made me wonder if these G. pulchra do a hibernation thing in the winter months, cause he's eating fine now and hasn't shown any further signs of premolt.

They just love messing with ya. Mine did the same thing - went two weeks without eating and then gorged themselves for another two weeks before moulting.

 

[VanessaS]

The E. campestratus...

 

[VanessaS]

Well, it's been a moulting frenzy around here with my Euathlus sp Red moulting this morning. Snapped these before going to work, but didn't get a chance to post them. They haven't grown at all, but they have a big black spot now. Hahahaha!

 

[Kymura]

Progress! Just teeny steps!