Stuck molt

[Conor121]

Hi everyone,

I have a C. Versicolour that is 4 years old now and she molted this morning, but since the molt she has made no progress at all after 15 hours. She has just started getting her legs out but nothing more.

I have tried wetting areas of the molt and have put her into an icu 1 hr ago, but still no progress. I dont know how much longer i should wait before trying to actually give her a hand, did i act too soon or too late? This is the first time ive had something like this happen.

Does anyone know what my best course of action is at the minute? I'm really lost and worried right now as to what to do. Should i help her as soon as possible or leave her in the icu overnight and hope she is fine?

Thanks in advance for any input its really appreciated

 

[ladyratri]

There was just a thread like this a few days ago also. As with that one, I would start by reviewing this thread:

Tarantula Stuck in Its Molt? Look Here for Advice

Tarantulas sometimes get stuck during molting – it happens, nobody really knows why. Accordingly there are a lot of threads that go “Help, my tarantula is stuck, what should I do?” More often than not the advice is to do nothing because ‘the tarantula knows best how to be a tarantula’. I think...

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