Housekeeping for pet holes/webs

[Colette]

Possibly a daft question but until now it hasn't been an issue as all my Ts were on display pretty much constantly.

How do you do routine housekeeping without disturbing the T and trashing their hole or Web?

My Gbb moulted this week but is still staying inside her web tunnel... and the molt is in there with her. I can't see any way to remove it without destroying the web.
Similar question... my P sazimai and N chromatus are both pet holes currently. Are they likely to stay hidden when they molt and if so will the kick out the molt afterwards?

The brachys are so much less complicated lol.

 

[user 666]

I usually don't bother with housecleaning the web builders or tunnelers if the bolus or exuvia is inaccessible.

it's just not worth it.

 

[Ellenantula]

My Gbb moulted this week but is still staying inside her web tunnel... and the molt is in there with her. I can't see any way to remove it without destroying the web.

I have zero GBB exos. She keeps them in her basement. I see an occasional blue leg here and there -- so she has destroyed them anyway.
I collect all my Ts exos but I am resigned (short of rehousing her -- which I refuse to do as she is happily in her adult forever tank) that I will not be able to add hers to my collection.
Life... whatcha gonna do?

 

[Venom1080]

I've never gotten a molt from my P muticus in the last 4 years. It's normal.

 

[user 666]

I've never gotten a molt from my P muticus in the last 4 years. It's normal.

some of my pet holes molt on the surface, but it's rare.

What's more common is my P cambridgei. I found two molts in its web tunnels only after I had torn down its enclosure on moving day.

 

[mconnachan]

some of my pet holes molt on the surface, but it's rare.

What's more common is my P cambridgei. I found two molts in its web tunnels only after I had torn down its enclosure on moving day.

My C. minax have molted a few times since their arrival, I've managed to get their molts, but I have H. laticeps in larger enclosures, they don't toss out there exuviae, but one day when they're larger I'm sure they'll be accessible so I can remove the elusive molts for mounting.

 

[Venom1080]

some of my pet holes molt on the surface, but it's rare.

What's more common is my P cambridgei. I found two molts in its web tunnels only after I had torn down its enclosure on moving day.

Seriously? Which ones?

 

[user 666]

Seriously? Which ones?

My C darlingi molted where I could pull the exuvia out of the tunnel easily. And my last P cambridgei molt was left out in the open.

And one of my Lampropelma sp Borneo Black molted on the surface once.

 

[Venom1080]

My C darlingi molted where I could pull the exuvia out of the tunnel easily. And my last P cambridgei molt was left out in the open.

And one of my Lampropelma sp Borneo Black molted on the surface once.

Eh, none of those are really fossorials.

 

[user 666]

Eh, none of those are really fossorials.

The Borneo Black would disagree with you.

 

[Venom1080]

The Borneo Black would disagree with you.

No... It wouldn't. Give it time.. Ceratogyrus on the other hand.. maybe. Mine hasn't tunneled for over a year now, but it sure used to.

 

[Nightstalker47]

Possibly a daft question but until now it hasn't been an issue as all my Ts were on display pretty much constantly.

How do you do routine housekeeping without disturbing the T and trashing their hole or Web?

My Gbb moulted this week but is still staying inside her web tunnel... and the molt is in there with her. I can't see any way to remove it without destroying the web.
Similar question... my P sazimai and N chromatus are both pet holes currently. Are they likely to stay hidden when they molt and if so will the kick out the molt afterwards?

The brachys are so much less complicated lol.

Molts aren't really a worry, I have never seen one start molding no matter how long I left it in.
I'd be more concerned with the spider stashing a mountain of boli at the bottom of the burrow.

 

[Anoplogaster]

My GBB molt is still in there. It has been incorporated into the web wall of the tunnel. Just don't bother with it. There's nothing in a molt that would be harmful anyways.

My P. rufilata helps me out, though. She hates old exuvia in her hide, and always pushes them out. Such a good girl

 

[Charlie69]

My P irminia and GBB, molt in their webb where I can get to them. Every one that molts in the burrows, sooner or later throw out their molt, except my Hysterocrates hercules. For some weird reason I didn't find any old molts in his burrow when I rehoused him, nothing there? Its not worth it to destroy their home, to clean.

 

[Colette]

Thanks guys, I'll leave her alone unless she moves the exuvia to somewhere I can easily get to it.

 

[Colette]

On the flip side (sorry bad pun) Edna my B boehmi is making life simple for me

 

[Formerphobe]

My pet holes (C darlingi, L violaceopes, L sp Borneo Black) usually pitch their molts out pretty much intact when they are ready to eat again. It's sort if their "Feed me" indicator.

Pet holes P irminia and P subfusca usually toss theirs out in pieces over the course of a few weeks to months.
I have a mature B emilia who still loves her burrow. She typically throws out exuvia parts right before she is due to molt again, though this year she chose to molt topside.
OBT is another that usually waits until a molt is due to do housecleaning.
M balfouri, sometimes they pitch out entire molts, sometimes parts.

 

[Ungoliant]

My Gbb moulted this week but is still staying inside her web tunnel... and the molt is in there with her. I can't see any way to remove it without destroying the web.

When my male GBB was ready to resume feeding, he dragged his molt from his lair at the bottom to a more accessible place at the top of the web, where I could grab it without doing any real damage.

If you can't get the molt without tearing up the web or injuring the tarantula, I would just leave it. It won't hurt anything.

 

[Ellenantula]

My GBB has never drug out a moult for me to recover later. In fact, she seems to incorporate them into her basement webbing.

Now, my avic will eventually knock her exo out of her attic lair... but it is in such poor broken brittle condition.... unsalvageable. Fit for rubbish bin only.

 

[Kdubs]

New T owner here too...I have a GBB pretty much the same size as OP, and he does the same thing with his molts. The thing is, he also does the same thing with the...boluses? Boli? Dead bodies. It's a freakin horror show in there. They don't seem to bother him and I'd rather leave him alone if it's not an issue. He seems pretty comfortable hanging out with his kills. Do I leave it alone? Wait for him to come out and clean it out then?