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Well, I was getting ready to move my Usambara sling to a different cage by moving the entire plant that he has his web on (It's a beta cage, I just tossed the plants in that came with it -- THey're light weight and hey, he seems to like them)
I noticed one thing though...He had doubled in size!
So instead of doing it the easy way, I ripped the webbing apart to see him more clearly. Once the webbing was gone, I gasped in horror -- an alien had invaded my baby's home!
Er...Well...Sort of. Spiders look really funny in the middle of molting, and that's just what I had done. Ripped his home apart and disturbed him quite a bit in the middle of molting.
Well, I put him back in on his back, thinking for sure I had doomed the little spawn of satan to a short life or a period of deformation. Well, his legs started to move and I turned off the lights and went to bed.
But I was too worried about him and couldn't sleep - I got up about 10 minutes later and watched him finish molting. Everything turned out fine and he's an f'ing cow! I open his cage (Now in the smallest pet carrier) and he moves to the front of his funnel-type web (Attached to the plants again..they really like those things) and just waits. I reach in with my tweasers with a cricket on the end and it disappears in the blink of an eye.
I don't think I'm going to do that again, but in a way it was worth it - it was the first time I got to watch the actual molting part of a molt..or something. All I had seen before was the spider on it's back, not even moving.
Makes me wish I could hold the little guy! =p
I noticed one thing though...He had doubled in size!
So instead of doing it the easy way, I ripped the webbing apart to see him more clearly. Once the webbing was gone, I gasped in horror -- an alien had invaded my baby's home!
Er...Well...Sort of. Spiders look really funny in the middle of molting, and that's just what I had done. Ripped his home apart and disturbed him quite a bit in the middle of molting.
Well, I put him back in on his back, thinking for sure I had doomed the little spawn of satan to a short life or a period of deformation. Well, his legs started to move and I turned off the lights and went to bed.
But I was too worried about him and couldn't sleep - I got up about 10 minutes later and watched him finish molting. Everything turned out fine and he's an f'ing cow! I open his cage (Now in the smallest pet carrier) and he moves to the front of his funnel-type web (Attached to the plants again..they really like those things) and just waits. I reach in with my tweasers with a cricket on the end and it disappears in the blink of an eye.
I don't think I'm going to do that again, but in a way it was worth it - it was the first time I got to watch the actual molting part of a molt..or something. All I had seen before was the spider on it's back, not even moving.
Makes me wish I could hold the little guy! =p
