Can I feed my T during her premolt?

Alan tye

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Hi ! Just wonder .can I feed my T during her premolt? I knew that she kinda like going into premolt when she made some web on the top of Coco soil. But I put a cricket and she ate it?
 

ladyratri

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Premolt isn't a well-defined, magical thing... And I'm not entirely sure why you are asking if you can feed her when you already did? 😅

If she's hungry, she'll eat. If she's not hungry, she won't. If she goes in her hide/burrow and closes the door, leave her alone. If you put prey in and she hasn't eaten it 24 hours later, take it back out. 🤷

If her abdomen is big and bald and a lot darker than last week, don't offer prey.
 

Brewser

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Welcome to Arachnoboards.
Curious, what Species of Tarantula?
A picture would help.
Best Regards
 

TheraMygale

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You can feed during pre-molt: this is where the risk taking happens, and how good you are at picking up on your tarantulas cues.

she ate the cricket. Next time, she might not. She might eat if its pre killed. She might now.

you might put a live cricket in, without having been paying attention, and the tarantula starts molting. The live cricket can bother and or eat the tarantula. Both possibilities can be dangerous. A possibility is it molts and cricket minds its business too.

its a guessing game.

this is where you have to start paying attention and studying your tarantula.

when you suspect premolt, if tarantula abdomen nice plump and round, change your feeding habits.

and dont leave food in there too long just in case, unless youre ok with the possibilities.

For the record, tarantulas are better then us at knowing what is good for them. However, they still are tarantulas, and we have to make sure to pay attention to this to avoid unnecessary risk. Its in a cage afterall, not in the wild.

Ps: if you noticed a molting matt, putting in a cricket wasnt the best choice even if it ate it. Nothing bad happened, this time. It could just have been regular webbing to, its a spider after all, they do that. But a molting matt is more specific. And worth paying attention to.
 
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kingshockey

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some will eat the day of even right before a molt even but why take the chance of putting your t in a helpless situation to be killed? since you have no way to predict with any accuracy the exact minute it will flip to molt. common sense says you quit feeding when you know or suspect its in pre molt. even using pre killed you risk damage to its fangs then
 

Alan tye

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You can feed during pre-molt: this is where the risk taking happens, and how good you are at picking up on your tarantulas cues.

she ate the cricket. Next time, she might not. She might eat if its pre killed. She might now.

you might put a live cricket in, without having been paying attention, and the tarantula starts molting. The live cricket can bother and or eat the tarantula. Both possibilities can be dangerous. A possibility is it molts and cricket minds its business too.

its a guessing game.

this is where you have to start paying attention and studying your tarantula.

when you suspect premolt, if tarantula abdomen nice plump and round, change your feeding habits.

and dont leave food in there too long just in case, unless youre ok with the possibilities.

For the record, tarantulas are better then us at knowing what is good for them. However, they still are tarantulas, and we have to make sure to pay attention to this to avoid unnecessary risk. Its in a cage afterall, not in the wild.

Ps: if you noticed a molting matt, putting in a cricket wasnt the best choice even if it ate it. Nothing bad happened, this time. It could just have been regular webbing to, its a spider after all, they do that. But a molting matt is more specific. And worth paying attention to.
👍 thank you for your advice
 
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