Who molted today?

Ungoliant

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Yesterday, I noticed a single detached leg in the water dish of my Omothymus schioedtei (from @cold blood). The rest of the molt was lodged in the top of its burrow. (I guess it just kept dragging the "molt" by the leg after the leg broke off.)
 

coolnweird

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My T. vagans sling molted a few days ago, but the real star is my Pamphobeteus sp. tigris, who molted this morning. Little champ went from sling colors and 1.5" to 2.5" and no more Christmas tree butt! He's also developed a beautiful coral starburst on the carapace, can't wait until he comes out of his burrow and I can get pics.
 

jrh3

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2 C. Elegans, 1 T. Albopilosus, 1 N. Incei, and a female ghost Mantis.

Everyone wants to molt today I guess.

My Avic is building a web Tube now so maybe soon on it.
 

zeeman

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My 3/4" GBB received last Tuesday molted today. I saw it in its home with curled up legs and saw the old exo on the side of the webbing inside. Its since stretched out a bit more and the legs look longer. Not sure on the body size, but explains why it didn't take the mealworm on its first feeding yesterday. Will wait a couple days then offer food.

Pretty cool. I think my B auratum might be in molt too as its disappeared from visibility, and hopefully will know in a couple days.

Exciting stuff!
 

Rozwyrazowana

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There is a menstrual synchrony hypothesis and I'm starting to form my molting synchrony hypothesis. Two weeks ago I had C. elegans and P. cambridgei molting on the same day. Today N. chromatus and N. incei made a synchronized molt. And it's not like a have a huge collection and molts every day. I had no molts between those synchronized two.
 

z32upgrader

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T. verdezi male molted. He's 1.75" now and cute as a button.
2 of my 34 H. pulchripes slings molted to 3i.
 

itsjakob

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x2 M. robustum
x2 T sp. Cuzco
x1 H. Chrysogaster

Fingers crossed in hopes none are male!
 

Ic4ru577

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I just experienced my first molt. I got into Ts for a week, bought a juve klaasi and gbb and a 1.5” b emilia sling. Got the emilia for 4 days and havent eaten anything. At first I thought it was scare of the baby dubia. Yeaterday i crushed and drop tiny mealworm next to the burrow. When I woke up this morning, I found the molt blocking the burrow and panicked for a bit thinking my emilia had bitten the dust. I guess I popped my molt cherry last night. Somehow it dragged the mealworm into the burrow. I am planning to leave the worm there for couple of days before digging them out.
 

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Baby T

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B.smithi (aka baby T) molted last night. Came home from a drinking sesh to just catch it at the final moments. Proud mother 😍
 
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