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After my little Dolichothele exilis moulted yesterday just 19 days after its last moult made me wonder what is your record shortest gap between moults?
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32 days by my Psalmopoeus irminia between 5th and 6th instar.
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N. incei molted at 22 days! Side note, is it "moult" or "molt" I often see it spelled both ways 
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N. incei molted at 22 days! Side note, is it "moult" or "molt" I often see it spelled both ways
In the UK moult is most often used but in the US it tends to be spelt molt
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Thanks for making sense of that. Maybe I will just use both spellings to account for everyone on here 
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Let's just start a new trend and say "ecdysis" instead....Gotcha
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Let's just start a new trend and say "ecdysis" instead....
No, don't confuse me even more. It took me long enough to remember to call them moults after talking about snakes shedding for so many years
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The term molt or moult in the hobby has been used wrong for decades...
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Hmm I’ve never really paid attention but now I’ll have to. My tiny little LP molted twice in the last month I believe. Its now somewhere around a 1/2”.
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I will know soon, I'm keeping records so that way I will know how many days passed and how much food was consumed between moults. It's getting a bit involved now I have more spiders but I think it will be good data to collect especially given the lack of information regarding Australian species.
* a hint for members not in the US, set the language options on browsers and other software to English (UK), that way when you spell a word properly you won't be told it's wrong or have it changed by spellcheckers. The default is usually English (US) and it gets confusing when you're sure you spelled something correctly but the computer's saying it's wrong.
* a hint for members not in the US, set the language options on browsers and other software to English (UK), that way when you spell a word properly you won't be told it's wrong or have it changed by spellcheckers. The default is usually English (US) and it gets confusing when you're sure you spelled something correctly but the computer's saying it's wrong.
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