Bad blondi molt

[Rob883226]

what wonders me the mose is why is it out in the open, and not in a hide for molting?

My thoughts exactly. I've seen plenty of 9" blondi molt out just fine... but they all have proper hides/burrows and plenty of humidity/hydration.

Sad to see...

Are you asking me why its not in a hide, or speculating between yourselves?

 

[metallica]

Are you asking me why its not in a hide, or speculating between yourselves?

i was wondering.... that was all.

i have a 9" blondi myself. never see it.... why? it's ALLWAYS in the burrow.
if she is hungry she is at the entrance, if she is not humgry, she's at the back. molting? she seals the entrance about a month in advance, molts and yet a month later i see her again. i'm amased by the amount of blondi here that are out in the open all day.

 

[becca81]

i'm amased by the amount of blondi here that are out in the open all day.

Personally, I've got 2 that behave very differently - one that is almost always hidden unless he's hungry (and generally takes his food directly back to his burrow) and another that is almost always out in the open, only using her hide (deep enough so that she may block it if necessary and such) very infrequently (she did, however, molt in there, but she didn't block it).

I keep my large female in a much darker, quieter area than my male, which may account for the behavioral differences, though.

 

[smokejuan]

Personally, I've got 2 that behave very differently - one that is almost always hidden unless he's hungry (and generally takes his food directly back to his burrow) and another that is almost always out in the open, only using her hide (deep enough so that she may block it if necessary and such) very infrequently (she did, however, molt in there, but she didn't block it).
I keep my large female in a much darker, quieter area than my male, which may account for the behavioral differences, though.

My female blondi stayed in her hide the first three months I had her and then moved out never to return. She stands under a plastic bush I had put in there. The male is the same way. he only goes in when I clean right before he leaves a little cloud of fun that makes me itch for several hours.

I have one of three young blondi that has had nothing but trouble molts, fangs,etc. It is a miracle it is still going.

Kevin

 

[CedrikG]

Metallica: I like your point and it got a lot of sens.

My T blondi is hidden under its big piece of wood and I just ever see it. Before I rehouse it, its burrow collapsed so it had no hide anymore, and it looked ... very not healty.

Im not saying that you did'nt care well of your blondi, but from my personal experience a blondi without hide will get unhealty / stressed ... well like all tarantulas, that MIGHT explain why it did'nt turns well for him. Thats just a theory

BECCA : Nice observation, the lightning must have a role those different behavior

 

[Center]

Nice, nice I like this

 

[Rob883226]

Im not saying that you did'nt care well of your blondi, but from my personal experience a blondi without hide will get unhealty / stressed ... well like all tarantulas, that MIGHT explain why it did'nt turns well for him. Thats just a theory

Who are you typing too?

 

[CedrikG]

to you my friend, as I said, I dont know if you provided a hide or not, this is just a idea like that

 

[Rob883226]

to you my friend, as I said, I dont know if you provided a hide or not, this is just a idea like that

Direct questions are better. Saves a lot of typing and speculations being tossed around.

I provide hides, cage was recently cleaned, so maybe the spider didn't like the way I got rid of her mess. I don't think that was the problem anyway. It looked to me, and I have seen a lot of spiders molt, that it could not break its ass/book lungs out of the abdomen skin. I think it got stuck at that point and suffocated. The abdomen skin on that spider was not flimsy, it was hard, like cardboard. Now, was that because it was very large? maybe it didn't secrete enough enzyme or whatever it is to separate the new body from the old one? Who knows. Owned many blondi in the last 20 years and only lost 3 to molts.

 

[Midnightrdr456]

yea im sure that some that get that size just cant muster the strength to break the heavy skin and simply die. Sorry about your T and hopefully no other badluck in the future.

 

[metallica]

true, the abdomen skin of large blondi can be tough. this combined with molting upright allmost certain exhausted the spider. think about it, why do tarantulas molt up side down? simple, it is easier to push an empty exoskeleton away then to push itself up. esp for a large and heavy spider.

so the real question is... why did the spider not try to molt on it's back?

 

[roberto]

Terrible

That pic just turns my stomach. I am sorry you lost it.

 

[David Richards]

Sorry for the loss

I had a 10 inch die the exact same way, and would say that most of the problems come with the wild caught specimens if all other conditions are good. Sometimes you just can't get away with yanking an animal out of its environment, sometimes you can. Could have been alot of things, I really doubt it was neglect, s--t happens and we have all had something die under ideal circumstances. Sorry again dave

 

[Rob883226]

true, the abdomen skin of large blondi can be tough. this combined with molting upright allmost certain exhausted the spider. think about it, why do tarantulas molt up side down? simple, it is easier to push an empty exoskeleton away then to push itself up. esp for a large and heavy spider.

so the real question is... why did the spider not try to molt on it's back?

Who knows. I just cleaned the cage, maybe that screwed it up.

 

[Rob883226]

Last week it was a bad blondi molt, this week it was a GOOD blondi molt!

Woohoo!

This spider did everything right, started on its back, inside her spider cave for all the "it must be in a cave to molt!" people, and came out right as rain. I had to lift the bark for the top down shot, less than an hr free. She should be well over 9 inches now, maybe 10 Now if my male would just catch up...

 

[NeilD]

Blondi Moult

She looks just like mine, who has also just moulted

 

[Mike H.]

Glad to see this one worked out for ya ...

Regards, Mike :clap:

 

[Crimsonpanther]

Congrats on the Sucsessful molt ! By the way she looks GORGOUS even for a plus size model !!!
So Sorry to hear about the other blondi thought , thats truely tragic what happend ......Sorry for your loss
Thanks for sharing your pics ! :clap:

 

[Midnightrdr456]

Congrats on a succesful one after that bad one. Im jealous, my female blondi is only 4.5" and I cant wait till it grows to that size.