Red Rosie molted

My rosie was acting weird this last week. This is the spider I submitted samples of the mouth paste to RIESM and I thought the end was near due to the odd behavior. Today she made a shallow scrape, laid down a web mat and went legs up. It took her about 6 hours to complete. I was checking on her every ten minutes expecting to see a dead or disfigured spider but everything appears to have gone well.


Before:



After:

Nice Pics Bus **wants a Red Phase**

Nice pics Bus, question: Do all Rosies get the stripes on the legs, Do they have to be fully mature to see them. My female has just molted to 5" and there are no signs of any leg striping :?

The leg striping is more prominent on the red phase rosies that I've seen.

Here's a pic of one on Rick West's site:

http://www.birdspiders.com/index.cf...l&imageid=15B01F2FKD0B7KAEC2K14E64F78C60966E0


I wish I could get the right lighting and had a better camera to really get the overall red color which doesn't show in the pics as well as it does in real life.

I have no life so one last shot:

What a beauty!
I have been more than ready for a happy ending!
Kerry
RIESM