Little Update

Smithy's molt went without incident and she's already eating. Her legs have grown! I don't know what's going on with Mustapha. He's been webbed away in his cave for what seems like ages. I thought he was eating until I noticed a couple of crickets jumping around in his terrarium. Oops, I hope they haven't been sucking his eyeball juices or doing anything like some of the horror stories I've heard about leaving crickets in with vulnerable, molting tarantulas.

It's so strange how tarantulas are both hardy and delicate. They can live for a year without food, and survive all types of shoddy conditions but at the same time they can bust if they fall.

I've almost had the Ts for 2 years now! I kind of can't believe that it's been so long already! I think I'm doing a good job so far at being a spider Mom.

Now that Smithy is molted, fed and finally has her abdomen hairs back, I want to take her out to play and take pictures. I haven't freaked out my friends and family on Facebook in quite some time!

Smithy Molted!

She's not molting very often anymore. It must be 4-6 months in between them. It also took her a lot longer to get out of the skin this time around. She's resting and doing well. I haven't seen her stretched out yet so I don't know just how much of a difference the molt made but I AM happy that the bald spot on her butt is all gone now. That means I'll be taking some pics soon!

I think Mustapha has molted too but there's so much web that I can't even see into his cave. He only comes out to eat and drink anyway so like last time, I'll just see him make an appearance one day and be like, OMFG he's huge AHHHH!"

Tarantulas are awesome