Hey folks! Does anyone know if there's any guides or how-tos, or advice you might be able to offer, on how to prepare & mount molts from very young slings?
I've never mounted any molts, though I've watched guides (the soapy water, tweezers & pin them in styrofoam) approach for adult molts. My sling recently had their fourth molt in my care (purchased in October of last year), and when I took out their original vial today (the one I brought them home in), I saw that their very first molt was stuck to the bottom. I somehow never noticed it in there; it is absolutely miniscule! I had saved the next two molts, and I can see the fourth in the bottom of their enclosure so hopefully I'll be able to retrieve that one. I thought it'd be a cool project to mount all the molts side-by-side to depict the growth of the tarantula over time, but from what I can tell, pins of any size would be far too large. The smallest molt is tinier than a pinky fingernail, for example, and the second isn't much larger.
Would superglue work? Maybe pressing it into wet silicone and letting that dry? I'm spitballing here, but I'd love to try it out! (I DID search the forums, but unfortunately multi-word searches appear to search for the individual words, so it's throwing back every single "molt" and "sling" result ever posted.)
I've never mounted any molts, though I've watched guides (the soapy water, tweezers & pin them in styrofoam) approach for adult molts. My sling recently had their fourth molt in my care (purchased in October of last year), and when I took out their original vial today (the one I brought them home in), I saw that their very first molt was stuck to the bottom. I somehow never noticed it in there; it is absolutely miniscule! I had saved the next two molts, and I can see the fourth in the bottom of their enclosure so hopefully I'll be able to retrieve that one. I thought it'd be a cool project to mount all the molts side-by-side to depict the growth of the tarantula over time, but from what I can tell, pins of any size would be far too large. The smallest molt is tinier than a pinky fingernail, for example, and the second isn't much larger.
Would superglue work? Maybe pressing it into wet silicone and letting that dry? I'm spitballing here, but I'd love to try it out! (I DID search the forums, but unfortunately multi-word searches appear to search for the individual words, so it's throwing back every single "molt" and "sling" result ever posted.)
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