Thin g.rosea. Shoud I worry?

[Mandy James]

Now that you have the moult it will be easy to check if she is actually a female. >>> LINK to sexing <<<

Hi, how difficult is it to do? I don't want to end up destroying the moult in my inexperience as I've promised it to my young nephew

Showing nice colour as well. Excellent news.

Thankyou, yep I love the fresh colours

As soon as you can, we need photos of the tarantula from the front and sides (as opposed to from the top). It looks suspiciously like a male to me.
I can't see any tibial spurs and the pedipalps don't look bulbous to me, but I'll pop some pics up as I'm no expert.

Enjoy your little 8-legged surprise package!

Thankyou, I thoroughly intend too.

[Szandra Speier]

Hi, how difficult is it to do? I don't want to end up destroying the moult in my inexperience as I've promised it to my young nephew

It's not difficult. Just take the moult in a lockable box between wet cotton pads and let it around 10-15 mins to soften. Than you can carefully fold it out with 2 toothpicks or something else without destroying the moult.

[Mandy James]

I've just taken a look at the moult and it looks like Marjorie is indeed a female. Will post a pic in case I've been a dizzy muppet and looked at the instructions wrong. Can't stop smiling at the mo, I never thought I'd even be able to have a tarantula in the same house as me a couple of years ago, and now not only have I got 3 but I've managed to do this with a moult. It sounds sad, but for me its a major step

[Szandra Speier]

Yeah, thats absolutely a female. Congrats!

[Tim Gibbons]

Good job, she's a beaut!

[Mandy James]

Thankyou. I'm chuffed to bits

[Mandy James]

I have an update on this girl and its not a good one I came home yesterday to find her on her back lifeless. There's no signs of ruptures and nothings broken although there was a lot of earth in her water bowl and a furrow in the earth around her enclosure almost as if she'd dragged herself round. I put her in ICU although I wasn't sure if she was alive and on moving her, her legs just dangled lifelessly. I've just checked on her and it looks like she's dead I'm absolutely gutted.

[Szandra Speier]

She was on her back....she's not so elderly and her last moult was 20 days ago. It can be just a moulting, it was a big mistake that you had distrupted her! I think.
How is she now?

[Mandy James]

She was an adult and it was 2 weeks after she moulted that I found her like this. There was a weird trough in the earth that went round the enclosure. All very odd :-\

[Szandra Speier]

I get it, but have no idea why it happend to her. Sorry for your loss! :/