Slings eating cast skins??

[Jonathan]

This may be a silly question.
Has anyone ever witnessed/suspected a sling of eating their old exoskeleton. This has happened two seperate times, and they were of the genus Avicularia. I am pretty sure it wasn't prey items. Maybe I'm crazy?

 

[Puppet Master]

never heard of that, but I do know that some T's will eat a leg that has been damaged or cast off,

 

[bpage_10]

I've heard of T's eating their cast skins, usually just part of it not the whole thing. I don't think it's all that unusual, I wouldn't worry! :}

 

[EDED]

ive seen a. genic, pampho, lividum, and i forget but ive seen spiders/slings 'eat' their cast...more like holding on them for awhile then tossing them somewhere, its usually the abdomen skin that they hold on to or eat whatever. not sure what they are doing though, cuz the cast skin is not really eaten.

 

[Jmadson13]

I know that atleast in the case of my C. marshalli the exuvium is completely mangled if not eaten in a short period of time.

 

[Beccas_824]

I've never had a T or sling eat its entire freshly shed skin, but they will look like their munching on it sometimes. And it never fails, an unsexed sling will always mangle/eat its exo right where the booklungs are making it impossible to sex it from that molt!

 

[surena]

I have had this happen with my ADULT H. lividum.

 

[JohnxII]

I'm pretty sure they just do it to get some moisture, instead of trying to "eat" it.

 

[Nick_schembri]

So far my half inch G.rosea sling has eaten every exuvium she's had, eating the carapace and abdomen first, and eventually eating the legs too

 

[Wadew]

When A "T" eats its molt it is reabsorbing all the nutrients that it has shed one important one Calcium.

 

[Megalodon]

my A.avic has done it a few times, i go in to reamove it and it is nowhere to be found and somehow he is looking fatter

 

[Pofecks]

My cobalt blue and T. blondi both tore apart their molts. I have a bunch of slings that have molted recently, but normally I find their molts on the opposite sides of the vial, untouched.

 

[aaronrefalo]

my 1" G.rosea always eats her exuvium over 2 weeks of time..

Aaron