Molting 101 - A Beginner's Guide 

How did she do in the end?

Awesome! You just made my day! 🤓👍🏼

@@TarantulaHaven They were the sexes I thought they were when I bought them too! Im looking to get a blue baboon or orange baboon within the next few years! I love my curly hair and pink toe, but I want something more visually stunning, and bright orange or blue/white all over is so appealing! Thank you so much for your content! ♡ Ive become a full-fledged tarantula mommy lol!

Question how are the snakes that were in your classrooms doing

I’m having heart palpations I’m going through my first molt With my brachypelma hamorii

@@mels1991 yea its like such an intense worry seeing them on their back like that!

Update she’s doing great and her colors are beautiful I’m so lucky to own her

Same! This is the best video about what actually goes on in a molt that I have found! Very appreciative.

Bill Stokesbary hey! You don’t know how happy this makes me. Thank you! 🤓👍🏼🕷

Just what I thought as well. I prepared myself for several month before I actually bought my first T. And I research every species I'd like to buy BEFORE actually buying it. I wish ppl would prepare themselves better instead of just buying one, only to freak out all the time, asking the same newbie questions over and over. Most newbie questions are practically answering themselves just by researching the species or Tarantulas in general.

It's actually not as easy as you think. For example, I am a dyslexic and therefore also get a headache every time I read. And I have tried to find information in my native language, but without success, and trying to read in English will only give me a bigger headache. Therefore, episodes like this are actually very helpful, and you can recommend beginners to follow good youtube channels, like this and Tarantella Collective, instead of rolling your eyes and getting angry, because some are terrified that they are doing something wrong that will kill the animal they have acquired.

@@irisravenhild9060 Yes there are always exeptions. But in most part i thin people are just too convinient to make research. This was not the main reason i left. There where a couple of guys that were assholes

I'm a newbie as well, entered the hobby about half a year ago. I started with a curly hair (mine is an eating machine, always hungry). And a Grammostola Pulchripes. She's an awesome grower, chill and slow moving, even when small. Got her as a 2 " sling. She molted two times and is now 4.50 " and is now the second largest T in my collection. Third one was a B. hamorii. Her temperament changed after molting. She's kicking hairs now and even gave me a threat pose while refilling her water dish. XD Will say: Hamorii's are beautiful but they can be bitches at times. Next came a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, "GBB", sub-adult. An awesome, heavy webber but VERY fast. She's in premolt for at least two months now and slowed down quite a bit but I usually feed her with the terrarium lid closed and only throw food in through the small hatch in the top cover. Then I bought a Nhandu Tripepii. Heavy burrower, that one. Don't waste your time decorating her enclosure, she rips out everything, re-arranging her decorations into a messy pile in the corner, slowly covering everything with dirt, lol. She's my largest T. A beautiful girl, rather curious but a little nervous as well. She comes running when hungry, drumming the glass of the enclosure with her paws when hungry and bolting into her underground hide when not interested in food. Loves to sit on her stone (a reptile stone, made of plastic and screwed tight to the sight of her enclosure to prevent it from dropping down and smashing my "Pepi". She's gonna get big and mine is out every evening for a few hours. N. tripepii hates light, so make sure her enclosure is facing away from the window. She also needs it more moist than the other species I have. B. Emilia, 1.5 " sling came next. She's burrowing like crazy and won't come out of her hide. She intercepts food on the way down into her burrow, lol. Last one is Caribena versicolor. She's arboreal and needs a fake tree inside her enclosure to be happy. I made one from cork bark and fake plant branches, securing them in place with silicone. Cannot say much about her yet. She's part of my collection for two weeks, so far. And I also own three Lasidora parahybana babies. Tiny slings that came as freebies with the C. versicolor. They eat well and I feed them pre-killed prey (crickets cut in half with small scissors) every 3 - 4 days. Also: Alex here, Richard (Tarantula collective) and Tom Moran (tom's big spiders) are the best in terms of information, husbandry and care. Their insight and information value's incredible.You can learn a lot by watching their clips, especially the ones about the species you wanna buy. And at last: don't buy Tarantulas only because you want to have many. I have ten and they're more than enough to care for as a beginner. it takes me between one and two hours every day to care for my Ts AND their feeders. Especially the feeders need a lot of care to ensure that they stay healthy. I'm feeding my T's with crickets, dubia roaches and superworms. They also get locusts from time to time but they're more difficult to be kept alive.

I also have amazing pictures of my seemanis bald patch that was there a week before she molted.

Yes they do. Most arboreals will molt in a web hammock and not on the ground.

Oh my gosh mine is molting in her web rn and she's super young so I'm super scared because she's my first tarantula

They are slow growers. Give it some time. I’ve had a couple for 2 years and they’re about 3 inches.

Yes. Not in the same manner. Many true spiders will hang from their web and molt but yes all spiders molt.

@@TarantulaHaven ok, wow I didn't know that they molt 🧐. Every interesting thank you .

No. She wouldn’t have eaten it if she wasn’t ready. She’ll be fine.

@@TarantulaHaven because most my research says it will take couples of week before offering her a food, her fangs are not even turning in black just red and in really worried about her

@@jerelbautista4825 that’s really strange. They usually won’t eat until their fangs have hardened. The only real concern with feeding too early is that they may break their fangs because they haven’t hardened yet. If she managed to kill her prey and eat it without breaking her fangs then she should be good to go. Just be careful in the future. A good seven days is appropriate to wait but if she refuses to eat try again in another few days.