Exuviums: To keep or not to keep?

[aliasx]

Do you collect your tarantulas exuviums [shed exoskeleton]?

What do you do with them? and why?

 

[David Burns]

They're great for halloween decorations. The new world ones make great itching powder

 

[Randy]

LOL not to mention haloween , it would make a ideal collection in future when u have many of them, i keep them seperately togethetr with my log book .. well.. its interestin

 

[luther]

Some of mine go to my kid's classrooms for the nature tables. The nicest are put behind glass in box frames. The rest seem to pile up in a large, plastic tub, along with mantis exuvia and whip scorpion jaws. It seems a shame to throw them away.

 

[Immortal_sin]

I take mine to my educational talks, and hand them out to whomever wants one. I put them in a plastic baggie so nobody has to actually handle them.

 

[mick]

A nice setup with them is cool.
Mick

 

[JacenBeers]

I prefer to rid myself of them. Most dont look very ralistic anyways.

 

[Greg Wolfe]

Keeping the sheds...

The only ones I keep are my larger T's and ones that are hard to find right now. Always securing them in a ziplock bag for educational programs. They dessicate and fall apart after a while but it is cool to keep a few around.

 

[UberUsumbara]

I am planning on keeping all of the molts from my spiderlings to track their growth. Its fun to look at my H. gigas' first molt from 3 months ago (itty bitty) next to it's last one (4 inches). I want to send one to Swift's Inverts for sexing but only if she can return it.

 

[Hogge2k]

I eat every.... nah.. :}
But yea, I keep them all, but then, I dont have 247 T's (just 11) and I think its really cool to see how much they grow.

 

[Hogge2k]

I eat every.... nah.. :}

Hm, I'm not sure I wrote just that... we having a crayfishparty over here and that explains alot... to everyone whos been on a swedish crayfishparty that is. :}

 

[Malhavoc's]

I gridn them up with egg shell. rotten food and peat moss and scatter it in my garden.. best mulch around

 

[tarantula666]

i frame them and keep some for myself
and give some as presents to friends.

 

[Pheonixx]

i voted no ...

i only voted no because i have no idea how to preserve them....

 

[LPacker79]

I've tried to keep a couple, but they inevitably get crushed. Most of the time I don't even bother anymore, but I still try to keep my Tap molts.

 

[Overmenneske]

I want to send one to Swift's Inverts for sexing but only if she can return it.

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