First T, first molt :)

[lindenfoxcub]

*Hop around excited*

My first Tarantula, Gigabite, the A versicolor, just molted last night. She is (or was) 1/2 inch long, and had been eating fairly reliably once or twice a week for the first month I had her, so I let her go for a week so I could show my friends coming over on the weekend, the tarantula eating a cricket, and sure, she says she's not hungry. *headdesk*

Then another week and a half of hopping around worrying, paranoid that I have misinterpreted her not eating and sealing herself up in web for premolt and that she's sick, and reminding myself, this is normal, this is normal, she hasn't done anything to worry about yet....

She did it overnight and I saw the exuvium sitting beside her in her nest a few minutes ago. Looks like no complications. W00t.

 

[luckie_couture]

Congrats on your first molt! :clap: Hopefully you'll have many more to come!

 

[flamesbane]

Congrats! Post some pictures if you can.

 

[Totty]

:clap: :clap: Congratulation

 

[Dreadz]

Congratulations on the good molt. Its always fun to have a T molt.

 

[lindenfoxcub]

yeah, I forgot to say, though it's probably obvious, it's not her first molt, just her first one with me.

She's come out of her nest and she looks like she's all legs now.

will post pics when I find my camera. she still looked wet yesterday when I got home from work, but that could be a shiny skin sling thing, I dunno.

she's gone from about the leg span of a nickel to the leg span of a quarter.

 

[lindenfoxcub]

I haven't got around to fighting with my camera for pics yet, but Gigabite molted again last night, second time in my care. Only a week and a half of premolt this time, rather than two and a half - only long enough to start suspecting she might be getting ready, but probably because I didn't muck up her web this time while she was getting ready. Not sure of her new legspan, but from the size of her that I can see through her web (haven't disturbed her), I'm gonna guess a little more than an inch.

I r proud mommy.

 

[Mina]

Congratulations!!!!!!! The first moult is so wonderful!!!