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Thanks Leila! It is soooo easy to get attached to any life form when one cherish Life. Ready on its back, It had its web all well constructed like a bed to move on forward with its new life but found Eternity instead....

Final update! The tarantula died i presume shortly after I took the pictures. Most probably from internal injuries since at one point (as written) its thorax was "torn apart". I waited a few days to be certain (it is starting to decompose..). Thanks everybody for your inputs!.

Thanks for your understanding and support! (no irony here, truly)

look at 4:30 on the previous page, i did wrote about the fangs. "What you saw on the picture (if I got the right one) were the old pedipalps. And yes, i did notice some kind of redness that looked like fresh blood around the new fangs..."

I agree with you, finding about the sex or trying to determining the cause by manipulating the pet further does not address the problem directly. Anyway, I consider the pet doomed. The old pedipalps did not show any emboli it must have been a camera effect. As written earlier in this post the T...

Well it has been 4 days on its back not moving then it started to molt and 8 hours later (friday morning) the parts were fused as observed. Since friday morning nothing has improved with respect to the "fusing". However it is clear that the new exoskeleton & legs are getting stronger everyday...

I positively ID the new white fangs..

I will try to get a closer look and picture next of the pedipalps next time. However I positively ID the new and old ones. So, they are out too.

I could positively ID the 2 new pedipalps and the two old ones.

I will take a closer look next time..

He did not know a safe solvent for this. Of course there are lots of substance that would dissolve this like most probably H202 or acid! but of course it would not be safe..

It is true according to numerous testimonies that water or water+soap will soften the old exo except the joints. However the entomologist told me that once the enzyme cycle is complete research suggest that it also contribute to the hardening of the new exocuticule. And this enzyme-liquid when...

PICTURES ATTACHED On the contrary, i do understand why a picture is important and i have explained why I have delayed them. What i do not understand is why everybody needs a picture to answer some basic questions that are not picture related such as how to dissolve the hardened residue I...

Update! (despite what is written above since it is significant). When watering the pet a few minutes ago i could observe now that the pedipalps and fangs are out too. I guess they were out yesterday but as the new exoskeleton is hardening things up front are starting to make more sense (the now...

I took a look at some posts/pictures of wet molt and there seems to be a correlation. In the case of my daughter tarantula it is so bad that i had absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the only thing i can do is to leave it alone. Trying to help it "unstick" the other side is helpless. It looks as...

Sorry, will not be able to supply imagery for now, the tarantula has "succeeded" sort of speak in breaking free one of the thorax "fused" side. I say sort of with respect to the success because it seems that there is a lot of internal bleeding. Trying to take pictures was distracting me from my...

Thanks again for the input. Questions; 1) Maybe water as "you think" might do the trick, but is there a known solution (i.e. liquid) more indicated in this scenario to dissolve the molting fluid? 2) if indeed the two forward pedipalps did not came out of the previous skeleton as speculated...

I will definitively post pictures and provide final status whatever the end issue.. dead or alive...

Well, as you said the cephalothorax is indeed the whole front part of the tarantula, which means carapace and everything below it (including the "legs") You say that If that was stuck, there would be no possible way for the legs to get free from the old molt. Unless the legs got out first then...

I will get some pictures later on. For right now I do not want to disturb the tarantula. To take picture I will have to put it on its side because from the top you would only see a tarantula with 16 legs. I wrote exoskeleton because this is what the molt or the old carapace is. I am no expert in...