Who molted today?

[z32upgrader]

Do these guys get darker or lighter towards a molt? Mine is around 4.5” but she’s a VERY dark brown and went off food around a month ago.

They typically lighten up to brown, then are refreshed to a deep black after molting. Her late in her molt cycle being naughty. This is what I saw when I came home from work, lid ajar, and her sitting on top of her neighbor's cage.

Then another time, just a month or so after she molted, going after prey, she jumped out of her cage.

 

[l4nsky]

I have a lot of tarantulas in premolt right now....

That comment aged well lol. While I still have quite a few in premolt, it's not as many as yesterday lol. Just looking around the room, I can see quite a few molted out today. So far:

• 0.0.1 Phormingochilus sp Sabah Dwarf (REALLY hoping I can get this one sexed this molt)
• 0.0.1 Tapinauchenius violaceus
• 0.0.1 Tapinauchenius sanctivincenti
• 0.0.1 Phormingochilus pennellhewlettorum
• 0.0.1 Homoeomma chilense
• 0.0.1 Aphonopelma mooreae
• 0.0.1 Ornithoctonus aureotibialis
• 0.1 Aphonopelma gabeli (whose pictured below currently shredding her molt for moisture..... next to a water bowl...)
• 0.0.X Phormingochilus sp Sabah Blue (eggsack in the process of molting to 2i)

 

[curtisgiganteus]

3 Ornithoctoninae sp Hana
1 Poecilotheria metallica

here is one of the Hana doing the stretch

 

[z32upgrader]

Neischnocolus sp "Panama" and Lasiodora difficilis females.

 

[curtisgiganteus]

They typically lighten up to brown, then are refreshed to a deep black after molting. Her late in her molt cycle being naughty. This is what I saw when I came home from work, lid ajar, and her sitting on top of her neighbor's cage.
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Then another time, just a month or so after she molted, going after prey, she jumped out of her cage.
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Yeah, I’m waiting on this one to molt. She’s been refusing food for close to a month now.


Went through the collection tonight and it looks like my female M robustum snuck in a molt on me in the last few days. She destroyed the meaningful part of her molt so I can’t see if shes sexually mature

 

[z32upgrader]

Juvenile male B. emila

 

[De Bourbon]

This Lasiodora just gave me this beautiful surprise last night. It seems she's ok. I hope
Its the first time I witnessed the molt.

 

[waynerowley]

P. “Machalla”, female, moulted last night.

 

[Mountaindani]

My G.pulchra <3

 

[z32upgrader]

C. leetzi and M. robustum girls molted.

 

[Charliemum]

Brachypelma smithi sam Andrew moulted today, everything went well and he looks fabulous imo well done Andrew

 

[8 legged]

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Brachypelma smithi sam Andrew moulted today, everything went well and he looks fabulous imo well done Andrew

Sir Andrew smithi, nice!

 

[Charliemum]

Sir Andrew smithi, nice!

I couldn't call him anything else when I found out he was male a polite nod to the man who has so much love and passion for the genus

 

[8 legged]

So the perfect name!

 

[l4nsky]

I'm really excited to see the A. sp Dragoons freshly molted. I mean, this was her in her OLD clothes less than two months ago:

0.1 Aphonopelma sp Dragoons

• l4nsky
• Jan 18, 2023
• 7
• aphonopelma dragoons dwarf female mature female

Undescribed dwarf Aphonopelma sp from the Dragoon Mountains, mature female

Caught her stretching in her new exoskeleton this morning and managed to take a quick picture through the lid without disturbing her.

That comment aged well lol. While I still have quite a few in premolt, it's not as many as yesterday lol. Just looking around the room, I can see quite a few molted out today. So far:

• 0.0.1 Phormingochilus sp Sabah Dwarf (REALLY hoping I can get this one sexed this molt)
• 0.0.1 Tapinauchenius violaceus
• 0.0.1 Tapinauchenius sanctivincenti
• 0.0.1 Phormingochilus pennellhewlettorum
• 0.0.1 Homoeomma chilense
• 0.0.1 Aphonopelma mooreae
• 0.0.1 Ornithoctonus aureotibialis
• 0.1 Aphonopelma gabeli (whose pictured below currently shredding her molt for moisture..... next to a water bowl...)
• 0.0.X Phormingochilus sp Sabah Blue (eggsack in the process of molting to 2i)

I had to do a double take this morning when I took a look at this female A. gabeli that recently molted. Doesn't even look like the same spider pictured before. I actually had to post it in the "Guess that spider" thread


And here's the same female gabeli doing some stretches a bit later.

 

[coolnweird]

Peaches, my N. tripeii, molted while I was out of town! Confirmed female with this molt, very pleased about that. Got her in April of 2020 as a tiny sling and she's grown so much. She hasn't left the burrow yet, but I had to take a pic of how big she's gotten!

 

[De Bourbon]

This Lasiodora just gave me this beautiful surprise last night. It seems she's ok. I hope
Its the first time I witnessed the molt.
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[IntermittentSygnal]

E murinus threw a molt out of her burrow today. Had to double take.. is that moss or molt? Ahh yes, legs and there’s the carapace.

 

[curtisgiganteus]

Caught her stretching in her new exoskeleton this morning and managed to take a quick picture through the lid without disturbing her.
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I had to do a double take this morning when I took a look at this female A. gabeli that recently molted. Doesn't even look like the same spider pictured before. I actually had to post it in the "Guess that spider" thread
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And here's the same female gabeli doing some stretches a bit later.
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That’s a really good looking Aphonopelma

 

[Bloodninja14]

My H. Mac just molted yesterday after 7 days of showing signs of a premolt. Had me worried because every other day this dude would flip on his back and then crawl around the enclosure. Thought I was going to lose him on day 6 and I decided to make him an ICU. Left him for 5 hours at 100% humidity and came back to a fresh spider!