Rose hair, help now!!
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Yep, completely normal. Also, it doesn't necessarily mean the molt will happen *immediately* now that it has barricaded itself away.
Just leave it be and let it do its thing. It sounds like it is acting the way a healthy G. rosea should.
Just leave it be and let it do its thing. It sounds like it is acting the way a healthy G. rosea should.
ametan
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Be aware it could take weeks... and weeks.
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yup I 2nd the weeks and weeks you may want a deck of cards or a new video game or a girlfriend/boyfriend they are good for a 2 week distraction ;P
or a new video game or a girlfriend/boyfriend they are good for a 2 week distraction ;P
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Not when both people are waiting for the molt, haha.yup I 2nd the weeks and weeks you may want a deck of cards
Our male P. pederseni has barricaded itself away. It's taking forever which may mean this is his ultimate molt. We'll see....
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Molt away! But really, the baricade dosen't necessarily mean a molt. My gigas repeatedly "holes up" for a couple weeks, knocks it down, then repeats. It would be nice if that were a sure sign of a molt.
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No. Tarantulas are at their most vulnerable state when they're molting, so if you knocked down it's little molting barricade, you could cause a lot of problems, and may even kill your T.
Just leave it be, and when the T is ready to come out, it will. And it'll all be worth it when you see how much bigger and prettier it is.
Cass
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dont knock it down it'll come out when it's ready
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I don't understand the weeks and weeks part. The pre-molt takes a long time yeah.. but the actual molting should happen overnight.
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It's being a spider, leave it alone. Like others have said, it could be getting ready to molt, it could just be hanging in its hideout.
If it's a captive bred rosea, it could be digging in for the winter, which may include a molt or two, depending on its size, until it comes back out in the spring. My CB G. pulchra does this. My roseas are WC and still on South American seasons, so they hid out this past summer...
I recently rehoused a ~1year old B. verdezi who hasn't burrowed the entire time I've had her (10 months). She molted on 11/19, rehoused on 12/10, burrowed on 12/12. She's definitely not in pre-molt. I may see her before spring, or I may not. Patience is a virtue in T keeping, even though it's sometimes hard.
If it's a captive bred rosea, it could be digging in for the winter, which may include a molt or two, depending on its size, until it comes back out in the spring. My CB G. pulchra does this. My roseas are WC and still on South American seasons, so they hid out this past summer...
I recently rehoused a ~1year old B. verdezi who hasn't burrowed the entire time I've had her (10 months). She molted on 11/19, rehoused on 12/10, burrowed on 12/12. She's definitely not in pre-molt. I may see her before spring, or I may not. Patience is a virtue in T keeping, even though it's sometimes hard.
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Wait....you have a rosie that USES it's hide????:: i have never seen mine use its hide... i took it in back in the beginning of the summer , and it hasn't eaten since like October. its about 4" now, still plump.. but refuses food and wont molt. he/she doesn't even look like it needs one either.. they take forever i've read. The rosie is my only t ive ever held so far, aside from my 2 G. pulchripes slings (-1") and my pzb sling (1/4" these take FOREVER to grow..) but i dont think they count yet lol .
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I'm pretty sure it's molted and came out by now... This thread is over a year old.