Molt collection.

Poonjab

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Recently started collecting molts again. Mostly out of laziness to throw them out. Let’s see your molt graveyards. 11BA1B16-3B44-47C2-9D4E-462B970FCC71.jpeg I’ve given a handful of my bigger ones away for classrooms. Just had T.albo molt recently.
 

CommanderBacon

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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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CommanderBacon

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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

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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.
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corydalis

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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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cold blood

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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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Poonjab

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

Lyra

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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.
 

l4nsky

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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

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I've thrown a lot out, but this is what I have now. I'm saving them to rub inside my enemies underwear.
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l4nsky

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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.
 
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