Spider with a spoiler

[Andrew climance]

Hi everyone. Not posted in quite a while... busy, busy, busy!

A couple of months ago, my A. bicoloratum moulted. I think the tank may have been to dry, I'm not sure, but the moult took a lot longer than usual and when the T eventually 'flipped', it still had the top portion of the old abdomen attached at the point where the abdomen meets the carapace - it looks like the spoiler on a sports car!

I have fought the urge to try and remove it with tweezers, fearing damaging (maybe fatally) my little chum.

I figure the whole lot will just come off with the next moult? Anyone have any experience of this happening?

I'll try and get a photo of this and post it.

[Kain Prestwood]

If it's been a few months since the molt, I would leave it imho. It will come off in the next molt.

Kain

[scotttaylor]

is it normal for chile rose to eat the webbing as he put a little out over his hide now its gon 24 houres later

[Kain Prestwood]

Bit off topic here Scott?

But yes a tarantula will eat it's webbing if it wishes to move it.

Kain