Good week for sloughing!!!!

[Matthew Baines]

It seems like its a good week for my spiders to slough! I have had 2 slough so far with awesome results . My l.para has just moulted and doubled in size , and my h. lividum has sloughed and gone from being a brownish looking spider too bright blue with no evidence cos i suspect she has destroyed it, i have a few more i suspect are going too slough this week such as my c. darlingi , h . minax , and my chile rose . So its bright beautiful spiders in my house.

[Matthew Baines]

i have just checked the exuvium of the l.para with a jewelers loupe , and i am 90% sure its male , i could see no leaf like structure , first time i have sexed a tarantula by its skin .

[Lisa Baines]

i swear i need to make a little photo studio for his newly shed tarantulas! you know what i'll be doing tonight... watch for pics later lol!

[James Box]

i had the same experience with an H lividum going from brown to blue with no exuvium! maybe buried really well, i dunno.

congrats on moults and first time sexing!

[Alexander Ramsey]

I wonder if its to do with air pressure or something like that 'cause I have had a lividum for about three weeks and it has also moulted this week. However, it has a well established dug out now so the "after pic" may take some getting.
I'm pretty sure though that the amount of blue on her legs has increased considerably while the body has stayed brown. She has noticably increased in size as well. She is only a couple of years old though and I'm told molts can be every 4 - 6 weeks in slings. (I'm sure I'll be set straight if this is not the case).
Also, she dragged the skin up from the dug out and dumped it in the green jar at the top of her hole, (see pic). An easy recovery with a long handled hook.
Best yet, I persuaded a large cricket (usually for Esmerelda my full grown rose) into the jar and she didn't mess about getting down to business.
If and when I get a good after pic I'll post it up.

[Matthew Baines]

i had the same experience with an H lividum going from brown to blue with no exuvium!

Its quite bizarre how she (Fraktal) went from brown legs with a slight blue tinge to black blue but getting too see her and photograph her will be a task with great results .

The l para is about 4 1/2 to 5 inch leg span now before it was only 3 inch .

[michaelmckinney]

How bizarre,

My Lividum DCF shed, my cyriopagopus blue shed bout an hour ago LOL, my peru purple juvie shed last nite and I looked in on my A. Geniculata sling, and he's on his back!!!!! MOULTING FRENZY!!!! LOL I'm just waiting on my P. Murinus RCF to pop now LOL.

P.S Cyriopagopus defo female GET IN!!! LOL.

Michael..

[Lisa Baines]

Do the tarantula's know something we dont?

ITS SHEDDING TIME!!!!!!

[jason holland]

i hope so. im eagerly awaiting my smithi to moult at the mo, stopped eating a month back, hairs greying a bit, skins blackening etc... just need the moult!!

i wonder if there actually are cirtain times of the year where they prefer to moult...

[Matthew Baines]

My g rosea is due too shed too been off her food for 6 weeks , getting dark patches on her abdomen legs look like there splitting (dont know if they are tho) . Plus its been a year sinse she last moulted

[jason holland]

just watched my smithi making its moulting mat. so hopefully i might catch the moult tonight!!! cant wait!!

[jason holland]

WOO moulting as i type. im so gutted tho, cos im filming it, but i missed the flip over so got footage of the moulting mat being made, and now just gotta wait and see what i can get of the moult itself. then ill post up the vids.

[Lisa Baines]

awesome i love watching it happen.

[jason holland]

my god... its soooo slllllooooow.... lol. 30 mins of it just lying on its back... lol. im so impatient

[jason holland]

ok, well ive been up watching since.... 11 - 11.30.... getting a bit tired now lol. moult went well. just needs to right itself. and got it all recorded. just need to wok out how to turn it into a time lapse video thingy now