My b. albopilosum (Jonesy) sling/juvi molted while I was away at Fan Expo's Artist Alley and my dad was coming in to care for all of my critters.
Jonesy was premolt for about a week and a half - two weeks before we left. They had made themselves a burrow in the same place as their first molt after I got them and stopped being interested in food (and like me, they quite enjoy food!) so I just made sure the tank was appropriately moist on the part away from them to keep the humidity levels up (I also have reptiles so I know how important it is in shedding) and we're eastern Ontario so are generally 65-75% humidity.
We came back after the convention and Jonesy had molted in the last 24-48+ hours or so (it's my second molt as a T owner, but their fangs were back to black and the exoskeleton was looking quite dry.) I didn't touch the molt until they left their burrow but I didn't notice what I thought to just be a bit of post molt "Oh that is just their exo-skeleton hardening up!".
Now I have been keeping a careful eye on them since coming home and they have been eating- I waited another half week and dropped a super worm (after crushing it's head and feeling terrible) and Jonesy dragged it back to their burrow and spent 2 days eating it (Their molting burrow is right at the front left corner of the tank, so every time I looked in there was just a smaller super wormer in T's mouth)
They have been eating and are now out and about but the thing I thought was "oh hey fresh exoskeleton" is still showing and looking like what I would call a wart in humans.
I've been going off of the fact T's generally manage themselves and if something was wrong they wouldn't be out hunting and eating... (But I do seem to always find the animals that appreciate food as much as I do)
I am sorry if this is a common thing- I tried to google search and the search feature in this forum seemed more user reply focus instead of general "Oh hay wat dis?"
Jonesy was premolt for about a week and a half - two weeks before we left. They had made themselves a burrow in the same place as their first molt after I got them and stopped being interested in food (and like me, they quite enjoy food!) so I just made sure the tank was appropriately moist on the part away from them to keep the humidity levels up (I also have reptiles so I know how important it is in shedding) and we're eastern Ontario so are generally 65-75% humidity.
We came back after the convention and Jonesy had molted in the last 24-48+ hours or so (it's my second molt as a T owner, but their fangs were back to black and the exoskeleton was looking quite dry.) I didn't touch the molt until they left their burrow but I didn't notice what I thought to just be a bit of post molt "Oh that is just their exo-skeleton hardening up!".
Now I have been keeping a careful eye on them since coming home and they have been eating- I waited another half week and dropped a super worm (after crushing it's head and feeling terrible) and Jonesy dragged it back to their burrow and spent 2 days eating it (Their molting burrow is right at the front left corner of the tank, so every time I looked in there was just a smaller super wormer in T's mouth)
They have been eating and are now out and about but the thing I thought was "oh hey fresh exoskeleton" is still showing and looking like what I would call a wart in humans.
I've been going off of the fact T's generally manage themselves and if something was wrong they wouldn't be out hunting and eating... (But I do seem to always find the animals that appreciate food as much as I do)
I am sorry if this is a common thing- I tried to google search and the search feature in this forum seemed more user reply focus instead of general "Oh hay wat dis?"