LP premolt ?

[jrh3]

so this will be my first molt for the LP i got a few weeks ago. is this heavy premolt? just curious how long so i can watch to get the molt out, but i dont wanna keep disturbing it under its hide. its not a burrowing LP personality,lol.

 

[tarantula49]

That is definitely premolt, and it looks to be pretty far into premolt.

 

[jrh3]

cool, i will leave it under hide for a week then check, its about 1.75inch DLS so maybe the molt can be sexed if not chewed up.

 

[bryverine]

Nab that sucker quick. Mine likes to move her molts around.

 

[Andy00]

Mine looked like that and it took almost a week to molt it molted 2 days ago and is now a half an inch bigger with adult colors

 

[jrh3]

nice maybe it will have adult colors as well

 

[scott99]

Has it molted yet?

 

[bryverine]

Mine looked like that and it took almost a week to molt it molted 2 days ago and is now a half an inch bigger with adult colors

When mine turned like that, it was out of its 'old skin' moving about in two days.

 

[jrh3]

Has it molted yet?

i will look when i get home, it has dug a small hole under cork bark so its easy to lift and not disturb. i did notice this morning it plugged the entrance to the cork bark cave so maybe so.

 

[lalberts9310]

That's heavy pre-molt for sure. You can expect it to molt within the next week

 

[bryverine]

i will look when i get home, it has dug a small hole under cork bark so its easy to lift and not disturb. i did notice this morning it plugged the entrance to the cork bark cave so maybe so.

I can only assume it was molting, but it'll come out when it's ready, no need to lift anything to check on it. You could really stress it out just to look at it.
Bad things can happen to a stressed out tarantula during molt.

 

[jrh3]

update, still no molt, i will post pick when it happens.

 

[jrh3]

finally molted today, wooooo

 

[bryverine]

finally molted today, wooooo View attachment 208014

I hope you saved the molt! Male or female?

 

[jrh3]

i have the molt, kinda twisted up, i will try to get some sex pics tonight.

I hope you saved the molt! Male or female?

 

[jrh3]

man this LP grows sooo fast look at it today, premolt again

 

[Andy00]

Looks like my LP sling is in premolt too!

 

[Czech prime]

What do you know so is mine!

You got yours sexed yet?

 

[Andy00]

Nah it's last molt was very twisted up and he/she is too small to do a ventral shot. Hopefully next molt, probably in the next couple of weeks. I'm thinkin it's a male because of how long it's legs are but I guess we'll have to see!

 

[lalberts9310]

Nah it's last molt was very twisted up and he/she is too small to do a ventral shot. Hopefully next molt, probably in the next couple of weeks. I'm thinkin it's a male because of how long it's legs are but I guess we'll have to see!

As far as I know, males only have long legs once mature. Before maturity they will look exactly like their female counterparts, unless they possess sexual dimorphism colour-wise.