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You know what they say about boiling water.......
A watched pot never boils.
It seems that way with spiders molting. Molting season is
here and it's always exciting to see critters make it through their molts successfully, especially the larger ones. Here's where
Murphy's law comes in:
1. If you are examining your spiders on a daily basis, nobody will molt (except for the little guys who molt all the time anyway).
2. If a week or two has gone by between feedings and you haven't checked in on your critters on a daily basis, you'll find that not only have several of your critters molted, but that those molts are all dried and chewed up to the point where it is impossible to determine sex.
3. If you go out and buy dozens of crickets and a few pinkies with the hopes of getting them all fed off, eventually, you'll have to play "pass the food" from one critter to the next because someone is either molting now or about to molt and refusing food.
Then you end up with leftovers, which leads to lots of escaped crickets chirping all over the house.
4. If your critters haven't molted since April or May last year and you know they SHOULD be molting by now, you'll find they aren't ready to molt yet, especially when they are female and you want to get them some mature males to breed with them.
I'm sure there are more Murphy's spider laws, but I can't think of any more right now.
Wysi
A watched pot never boils.
It seems that way with spiders molting. Molting season is
here and it's always exciting to see critters make it through their molts successfully, especially the larger ones. Here's where
Murphy's law comes in:
1. If you are examining your spiders on a daily basis, nobody will molt (except for the little guys who molt all the time anyway).
2. If a week or two has gone by between feedings and you haven't checked in on your critters on a daily basis, you'll find that not only have several of your critters molted, but that those molts are all dried and chewed up to the point where it is impossible to determine sex.
3. If you go out and buy dozens of crickets and a few pinkies with the hopes of getting them all fed off, eventually, you'll have to play "pass the food" from one critter to the next because someone is either molting now or about to molt and refusing food.
Then you end up with leftovers, which leads to lots of escaped crickets chirping all over the house.
4. If your critters haven't molted since April or May last year and you know they SHOULD be molting by now, you'll find they aren't ready to molt yet, especially when they are female and you want to get them some mature males to breed with them.
I'm sure there are more Murphy's spider laws, but I can't think of any more right now.
Wysi