Houston, we have a molt !!

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Ok folks, this post is going to be heavy on pictures. Get the shades while you’re at it, this is hot !!

So yesterday, when I got home around 9:15 PM, I did the usual “peek” in the cage. Still hadn’t flipped. Got on the computer to browse until midnight. Before I went to bed, I had a second look, and what do you know, Fluffy had finally flipped !!

I wake up around 1:15 am. Still no changes. Went back to sleep.

Wake up for the second time around 2 am. Here’s what I saw.

Got back to sleep.

Woke up again at 3:30 am. Here’s what I saw.

I head back to sleep once more.

Woke up at 7 am. This is what I saw.

Wanting to take a closer look, I gently pull the cage away from the T closet and put it on my bed.

Here’s Fluffy in her brand new suit, side view !

From what I can tell, it’s a perfect molt, all appendages (legs, pedipalps, spinnerets, etc) are accounted for.

Here’s the top view, and it’s really easy to see why the B. boehmei’s common name is “Fireleg”. Just LOOK at how VIVID that red is !! WOW !!

So I can finally stop worrying and look foward to her first post-molt feeding in a week and a half to two weeks from now. To celebrate her new molt, I shall record her next feeding and post it up on youtube for all to enjoy !!

Thanks everyone for the kind words and support. Nothing makes me more happy than a fresh molt gone perfect :smiley:

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The colors are nice. Its a shame you couldn’t catch more of the process in action though either yourself or with a time lapse camera, or from different angles.

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I agree about the time lapse camera, try setting that up next time. They aren’t hard to get a hold of.
Very beautiful legs on that one, thanks for the pics!

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Hot legs!

wolf whistles

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Very nice indeed! I sure would like to see a time lapse of the molting… that would be incredible! :smiley:

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So I’ve finally got around to starting off my Youtube account. I had joined 3 years ago, but never bothered to record anything since I didn’t have a digital camera.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ZTTFanatic

It’s all very basic info anybody in the hobby knows, but it’s kinda neat to talk about it myself.

I’ll get the hang of my “speaking online” stress eventually. Just need to practice and keep making vids.

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Get ready folks !! Here she is after a week since her molt. Her colors are really intense now.

Top View

Side View

Frontal View

I did have to gently nudge her away from her favorite spot to get these shots. I decided it would be a good idea to reacquaint her with the water dish in case she might get thirsthy, so that’s why she has a “paw” in the water. I tried feeding her a mealworm earlier but she paid no mind to it. I guess she’s still not ready to eat again. Her fangs must be close to fully dark by now. A couple of days ago, they were half black, half red, so it’s only a matter of time.

So yeah, looking foward to the eventually first post-molt feeding.

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Hola DG. Apparently some joker over here had a Mexican redknee molt as well and left the molting on a traffic light crossing :smiley:

http://omakaupunki.hs.fi/paakaupunkiseutu/uutiset/jattilaishamahakki_jarkytti_ohikulkijoita/

“GIANT SPIDER TERRIFIES BYPASSERS” :smiley:

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OMG! That’s freaking hilarious (and incredibly terrifying at the same time! lol) I would walk 50km to the next light to cross! xD

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I got some more shots, but first something neat !

Yesterday morning, I decided to hit the LPS for 3 crickets since I thought she was ready to eat now. I quickly dropped the crickets and headed out for work. That was around 11 am. I got back around 9:15 pm, tired from my day yet looking foward to see if she had eaten all 3 cricekts by now. She was in the process of finising up the last one. I literally sat and watched her until midnight. So I managed to see her make her food bolus as well as the post-meal grooming. It was pretty amazing to see and it made me appreciate her more than ever. I’m still counting my blessings on how I lucked out to get a female when I blindly bought unsexed.

If there is anything to be considered negative about her, it’s her highly skittish nature ! This morning she was lounging near her food boluses and I used my tongs to gently nudge her out of the way. She quickly turned around and went to the opposite corner. Thankfully she didn’t bother to kick hairs. So she chills in her favorite spot behind her cave hide, and she also eats there too. And now that I’ve witnessed her placing her food bolus behind the cave, it makes it easy to spot clean since it stands out from the substrate as well as the cave.

So I’m looking foward to the next feeding. I’ll wait until I’m off work so I can witness everything, regardless of how long it takes.

Anyways, here are the pictures.

The first one was taken while she was still eating.

And the other one was after she was done grooming. It’s hard to see from the angle, but she has a foot pointing at me as if to say “I see what you did there, stop staring at me !!” :stuck_out_tongue:

Still can’t get over how beautiful she is since her molt. Despite her skittish nature, she was definitely worth getting :smiley:

Next time I feed her, I will record, promise !!

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