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Well, after a long time thinking about it (he hasn't eaten since February 8th) Mugabe finally decided to moult.
He's been sitting inside his tube web a lot, spinning extra layers of silk and building extensions.
At about 9:15 I looked up to see he was flat on his back in his ground floor burrow
He remained utterly motionless until about 11pm...I looked up at 11:20 and he was almost entirely out of the old skin.
It didn't take long before he was entirely free - check out his new fangs, still white and soft. The old skin is on the left.
He was fully free by about 12:45, and pushed the old skin to the entrance of his burrow.
He's a LOT bigger now, but his abdomen is rather small and shrivelled (as always after a moult) I'll have to let him harden up for a few days before he can take food.
Here's the old skin:
When he decides to come out of his burrow I'll get some pics of him - he's now a really bright shade of orange.
I know it's just a moult, but I can never help but worry about them at the time hehe.
He's been sitting inside his tube web a lot, spinning extra layers of silk and building extensions.
At about 9:15 I looked up to see he was flat on his back in his ground floor burrow
He remained utterly motionless until about 11pm...I looked up at 11:20 and he was almost entirely out of the old skin.
It didn't take long before he was entirely free - check out his new fangs, still white and soft. The old skin is on the left.
He was fully free by about 12:45, and pushed the old skin to the entrance of his burrow.
He's a LOT bigger now, but his abdomen is rather small and shrivelled (as always after a moult) I'll have to let him harden up for a few days before he can take food.
Here's the old skin:
When he decides to come out of his burrow I'll get some pics of him - he's now a really bright shade of orange.
I know it's just a moult, but I can never help but worry about them at the time hehe.
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