Tarantula rejenuration....amazing

[whitehaze2008]

i have a female who had lost part of her palp in a molt......
she jusy molted again and the entire palp is back.....
thats crazy.....where does the broken leg grow?
and how does it not "jut" out under the old skin?:?

 

[butch4skin]

What's with you a lost palps man? Just kidding. I've got a P. striata and C. marshalli with missing legs. No big deal, doesn't worry me in the slightest. It's those broken fangs you gotta watch out for.

I think the "replacement" appendage would, like, lay flat under the skin. I mean it must, right? But exactly how and in what direction? who knows? Probably someone else smarter than me.

 

[The_Thunderer]

i have a female who had lost part of her palp in a molt......
she jusy molted again and the entire palp is back.....
thats crazy.....where does the broken leg grow?
and how does it not "jut" out under the old skin?:?

As I watched my B. smithi molt, I wondered the same thing because my B. boehmei molted and LOST a palp and a leg.

Here's what I think... but it's just conjecture... I think the new limb grows between the new layer of skin and the old or is compressed in the area where the previous limb was cut off. Then, during the molt, it fills out.

Its just what I was thinking while watching the molt. Could be right... probably completely wrong, but its a thought. LOL.

 

[butch4skin]

As I watched my B. smithi molt, I wondered the same thing because my B. boehmei molted and LOST a palp and a leg.

Here's what I think... but it's just conjecture... I think the new limb grows between the new layer of skin and the old or is compressed in the area where the previous limb was cut off. Then, during the molt, it fills out.

Its just what I was thinking while watching the molt. Could be right... probably completely wrong, but its a thought. LOL.

There may be something to that, like just skin folded up accordian style with little or no fluid. Could be...

 

[M.F.Bagaturov]

Look here, maybe You'll find something to support or break off Your conclusions.
http://atshq.org/articles/Regeneration.pdf

 

[butch4skin]

Why do you keep trying to make us read? Don't you know americans are lazy?

 

[The_Thunderer]

Why do you keep trying to make us read? Don't you know americans are lazy?

LOL. I read the appropriate parts and I think it supports what we were thinking. LOL. Soooo, we were RIGHT!

 

[butch4skin]

LOL. I read the appropriate parts and I think it supports what we were thinking. LOL. Soooo, we were RIGHT!

Well, you were right. But if anyone asks, you can say it was my idea. I don't mind.

 

[Poolnymph]

Why do you keep trying to make us read? Don't you know americans are lazy?

Now that's a pity...it's actually a very good read!

 

[M.F.Bagaturov]

butch4skin, sometimes You need to read, maybe just Your Surname and name LOL

 

[Stylopidae]

Am I the only one who finds someone who posts on an internet forum complaining about reading ironic?

 

[The_Thunderer]

Am I the only one who finds someone who posts on an internet forum complaining about reading ironic?

LOL! Now that's funny!

To remain on topic... I'm waiting for the day that my 2-3" B. boehmei regrows its palp and leg. Still quite the stunner, but she'll look much more "pleasing" when she's whole again.

 

[NeitherSparky]

Am I the only one who finds someone who posts on an internet forum complaining about reading ironic?

Dude, this is now my sig on my own forum...

And I think its pretty darn amazing when a t molts out double the size it was before! That just gets me. I was totally wondering about the regenerated limb thing though.