Molts left in cage

[JahillHimself]

Is it bad to leave the molted skin inside the Ts enclosure? A few of my Ts have molted and I have been able to just pull the molt right out. Recently my A. urticans and OBT molted and its deep in their web tubes. I don't want to mess it up digging for the skin. I know when my P. metallica molts it will prob be in the hide and I wont be able to get it.

 

[Biollantefan54]

Its perfectly fine, they wont mold or anything. If the tarantula get tired of it, it will push it out in the open.

 

[Poec54]

Most T's toss out their molts somewhere in the cage; sometimes they incorporate them into their retreat. Some will wad them up and put them in their trash corner, with their boluses. I have a burrowing Phlogius sp. Goliath in a 12" high cage, that's put her last two molts up at the top of the cage.

 

[JahillHimself]

Good to know...thanks...I guess Ill just wait and see if they get pushed out.

 

[Formerphobe]

Some spiders will do 'housecleaning' prior to a molt. Any refuse, including old exuvia, gets pitched out, sometimes in pieces and parts to the four corners.

 

[pyro fiend]

agreed was one of these last month or so.. some clean out eventually. i personally usually grab min IF i can. my psalm loves to put it out of rach. but this last time molted hiding and brought last 2 [but not first] molt from this cup on a leaf he knows i use to water his dish [let it drip down like a rain water siphon]