Tailless whip scorpion molt caught in the act

[Maxthesquid]

Hey everyone, I was lucky enough to catch my TWS towards the end of her molt live. This was probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, I’ll show the best pictures I was able to get.

this is how late it was into the molt when I first saw it happening.

legs out

almost done
Success

I’ll post a response to this with a photo thread of its exo darkening as time passes after the molt below.

 

[Maxthesquid]

this was about one hour



Two hours later



four hours later


And finally, a day later, and as of now (two days later) she still looks similar to this, only having her spikes and feet section of the legs darken up to an orangish color

 

[that1ocelot]

Awesome! What a nice clean molt. Always great to see

 

[Maxthesquid]

Here she is now, about 4 days later, I love how the claws and some of the spikes along the pedipalps are blood red, makes it seemed she just, well you know. Below is an edited photo of her about a week before the molt.