Who molted today?

[MariaLewisia]

A couple moults happening these last few days:

- Large female Psalmopoeus reduncus, who gave me a super healthy eggsac back in July, has moulted without double clutching. Now she's on break until my (unrelated) suspected male sling matures.
- Dolichothele diamantinensis juvenile male moulted! Again! He's getting big now at 5 cm DLS, so maybe I should say he's subadult. Either way, I'm so so thrilled and can't wait to pair him up with my girl.
- Davus pentaloris juvenile, now confirmed female, moulted. Lovely bright red colours and clean stripes!
- Ephebopus cyanognathus male hooked out, but due to a sudden influx in mature males I've yet to find anyone with a female, which sucks because I'd hate to see him rot away here with my two immature females.
- Cyriocosmus perezmilesi male hooked out. Same thing as the C. cyanognathus - can't find a female and I only have his sisters.
- Last but not least, Brachypelma auratum sling, suspected female, moulted. She's grown quite a bit recently and is now just pushing the one inch mark and you can just make out the little leg patterns. So cute!

 

[Mike Withrow]

Been waiting for this little one to molt.
This is only a few hours after it hadn't started to when I had checked on it this afternoon.

 

[NMTs]

I'm the last 5 days I had molts by:

- 0.0.1 Ceratogyrus marshalli, tiny sling
- 1.0 Poecilotheria vittata, juvenile male

- 0.0.1 Ornithoctoninae sp. Hana, the third of my trio about 3 weeks behind the other 2
- 0.0.1 Avicularia hirschii, about 1.75" DLS. Very pretty, but very timid:

 

[SpookySpooder]

IMO Avics build the most impressive molt mats




Avic M1

N. incei


Davus sp. Panama
"HEY CLOSE THE CURTAIN!"

whoops

 

[TheHound]

Male Xenesthis immanis with his new clothes

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

My little man moulted last night. Trebor Extra Strong Mint juvenile male Acanthoscurria geniculata, looks like it all went well and once he is hardened and got a few meals down him will be getting an upgrade, definitely needs it after this moult as with all genics he has gone from ' ah viv will do one more moult ' to ' that's way to small ' in that one moult love the size jump on these. View attachment 457197
Chillin on his moult. All hail n well done Trebor .

 

[MariaLewisia]

My mature Grammostola iheringi female finally moulted after having prepared over the last few weeks. Which means I now have a ready female for my recently matured male! Very exciting!

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Little Davus sp panama finally came out in full view post molt a few weeks ago.

 

[corydalis]

Ceratogyrus marshalli 0.1 juvie

 

[l4nsky]

0.0.18 Phormingochilus sp Sabah Blue
0.0.1 Avicularia avicularia M2 (ex Avicularia braunshauseni)
0.0.1 Avicularia geroldi
0.0.1 Avicularia rufa (couldn't pull molt from web tube)
0.0.1 Phormingochilus everetti
0.0.1 Aphonopelma pallidum
0.0.1 Aphonopelma mooreae

Slings be growing...

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

I've had molts from 0.0.2 Sinopoda koreana and one of my Phormictopus sp. "Dominican Purple" juveniles. In addition I've been able to confirm that my 0.0.1 Psalmopoeus reduncus molted around a week ago.

 

[TLSizzle]

My G pulchripes molted. Doing the post molt stretch. Put on some NICE growth!

0.0.1 Avicularia geroldi
0.0.1 Avicularia rufa (couldn't pull molt from web tube)
0.0.1 Phormingochilus everetti
0.0.1 Aphonopelma pallidum
0.0.1 Aphonopelma mooreae

Slings be growing...

Omg where did you get the mooreae?

 

[l4nsky]

Omg where did you get the mooreae?

I picked some slings up the last time they were imported and available. It'll probably be another year or two before I can definitively say they are mooreae though. I don't really have a reason to doubt they are, but it's just the name of the game with glacially slow growing slings like Aphonopelma spp.

Went through and fed the juvies/adults today. Had a few more molts:

• 0.0.1 Phormingochilus sp Sabah Blue. Molt was shredded, so couldn't sex it.
• 0.1 Phormingochilus sp Akcaya. Good timing as the male is penult and should be mature before the end of the year.
• 0.1 Poecilotheria subfusca LL. Should probably start looking for a male, but I have a lot of other irons in the fire now...

 

[NMTs]

1.0 Psalmopoeus sp. black molted, and matured... at 2.75" DLS!



Also had 0.1 Ephebopus rufescens molt, she should be 3"+ DLS now. No pics of her yet.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

1.0 Psalmopoeus sp. black molted, and matured... at 2.75" DLS!
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Also had 0.1 Ephebopus rufescens molt, she should be 3"+ DLS now. No pics of her yet.

2.75”! Those are seriously beautiful legs though..

 

[SpookySpooder]

Just waiting on the last one to molt now.

 

[TLSizzle]

@SpookySpooder how's your versi sling?

 

[SpookySpooder]

@SpookySpooder how's your versi sling?

It hasn't improved much, but is stable. It just lays there most of the day, sometimes manages to crawl around a bit, but usually just rests on the substrate in a scrunch inbetween crawling in a circle and getting watered. Sometimes it sits on the wall, which gives me a bit of hope, but it hasn't spun a new web or eaten in almost 4 weeks.

I have been going back and forth on euthanizing it because I don't want it to keep "sufferring" but at the same time it doesn't seem to be in a ton of distress. The twitching stopped a while ago. Besides the fact that it can't retain water for a day by itself it doesn't seem to have any other issues.

I'll post an update once something changes.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Harpactira pulchripes surprised me molting out in the open. Hoping the rest of the molt looks as good as what I can see.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Also, I haven’t seen this Psalmopoeus irminia lady out in about 3-4 weeks, but those legs look as thick as my 3.5” GBB now. Can’t wait till she’s ready to eat again.