Molt collection.

[Poonjab]

Recently started collecting molts again. Mostly out of laziness to throw them out. Let’s see your molt graveyards. I’ve given a handful of my bigger ones away for classrooms. Just had T.albo molt recently.

 

[Edan bandoot]

Give them their clothes back weirdo

 

[CommanderBacon]

I usually give mine away every six months or so to my friend who makes jewelry out of them, so I just started up a new one. Here's this month's skin box:

 

[Poonjab]

I usually give mine away every six months or so to my friend who makes jewelry out of them, so I just started up a new one. Here's this month's skin box:
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Hell yeah!! I’d imagine yours pile up a lot quicker than mine haha.

 

[CommanderBacon]

I dunno about that @Poonjab ! I have too many Grammostolas, Brachypelmas, and Aphonopelmas, but that 6 month molt-a-geddon cycle maxed out my last bin by the end of March.

I put the smaller ones on my desk for sexing, but sometimes they blow off, so I keep finding little molts all around my house like weird little tumbleweeds that kick up when I walk by.

 

[Poonjab]

I dunno about that @Poonjab ! I have too many Grammostolas, Brachypelmas, and Aphonopelmas, but that 6 month molt-a-geddon cycle maxed out my last bin by the end of March.

I put the smaller ones on my desk for sexing, but sometimes they blow off, so I keep finding little molts all around my house like weird little tumbleweeds that kick up when I walk by.

#tarantulakeeperproblems

 

[corydalis]

There's just a few I could drag out in the last couple of years, I had absolutely no luck with my C.lividus tho, I've no idea what on earth is she doing with them.

 

[cold blood]

i send my molts off to someone who uses them for art....the other week she called, so i did a quick pick up of all the molts laying around the room....lol...these things add up quick.

 

[Poonjab]

Anyone got pics of the art they are being used for? I’m curious.

 

[BoyFromLA]

I do not keep all, but only certain good ones.

 

[Poonjab]

I do not keep all, but only certain good ones.

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What an amazing collection

 

[Lyra]

IV not managed to get a single one yet . All the action happens in the burrow and when it does eventually turf it out its in 100 bits by the time I get to it.

 

[viper69]

I don’t see the point of keeping sources of urticating setae.

 

[CommanderBacon]

Anyone got pics of the art they are being used for? I’m curious.

My friend makes little specimen jewelry out of them.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

I usually give mine away every six months or so to my friend who makes jewelry out of them, so I just started up a new one. Here's this month's skin box:
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skin box...sounds like a serial killer

 

[Jess S]

i send my molts off to someone who uses them for art....the other week she called, so i did a quick pick up of all the molts laying around the room....lol...these things add up quick.
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That's sort of how my shelf looks like

 

[l4nsky]

There's just a few I could drag out in the last couple of years, I had absolutely no luck with my C.lividus tho, I've no idea what on earth is she doing with them.

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A lot of your obligate fossorials just web them into the sides of their burrows and it can be really frustrating sometimes. I had to keep my P. muticus pretty much as a terrestrial for a few months to get a molt at all (the enclosure was really shallow, so to her the solid colored lid was the top of her burrow). It was worth dealing with an irritable KBB whenever I opened the enclosure though, it was my first tarantula and it turned out to be a female that I'll hopefully get a few decades with.

 

[Frogdaddy]

I've thrown a lot out, but this is what I have now. I'm saving them to rub inside my enemies underwear.

 

[l4nsky]

I give a lot of the larger ones away (like P. metallica and P. regalis) to people that show interest in them and want to show their friends and family.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

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I give a lot of the larger ones away (like P. metallica and P. regalis) to people that show interest in them and want to show their friends and family.

Beautiful skin collection!