Do T's always molt with their legs sprawled out?
Reason why I'm asking, is I was at a local petshop (This place is actually worst then Deathco) and they had a StrippedKnee. Well, this place keeps all their T's in little KK's hanging on the wall, and I asked to see the Stripped knee. Well, it was balled up in a cornner, kind of vertical, so it's abdonmen was up in the air, and all of it's legs were curled. "it looks dead." Was the first thing I said. The lady, reassured me it was not, that it was judt molting. Then she asked me , (this parts great!) If I was farmilliar with keeping tarantula's, because they molt sometimes. She said that she was leaving it alone until it was done molting.
I was pretty sure it was dead. I know T's don't always molt on their backs, but isn't curled legs a good indicator that it has moved onto T heaven? BTW, this place keeps their T's in horrible conditions, no water dish, on this saw dust looking substate, no hide, and no room for them to move around. I was actually kind of bummed, beacsue if it looked more lively I was gonna bring it home. It wasn't mature, maybe about 3 inches to four.
Reason why I'm asking, is I was at a local petshop (This place is actually worst then Deathco) and they had a StrippedKnee. Well, this place keeps all their T's in little KK's hanging on the wall, and I asked to see the Stripped knee. Well, it was balled up in a cornner, kind of vertical, so it's abdonmen was up in the air, and all of it's legs were curled. "it looks dead." Was the first thing I said. The lady, reassured me it was not, that it was judt molting. Then she asked me , (this parts great!) If I was farmilliar with keeping tarantula's, because they molt sometimes. She said that she was leaving it alone until it was done molting.
I was pretty sure it was dead. I know T's don't always molt on their backs, but isn't curled legs a good indicator that it has moved onto T heaven? BTW, this place keeps their T's in horrible conditions, no water dish, on this saw dust looking substate, no hide, and no room for them to move around. I was actually kind of bummed, beacsue if it looked more lively I was gonna bring it home. It wasn't mature, maybe about 3 inches to four.