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Old 18-03-2010, 08:24 PM
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Question Tarantula moults question.

We have had our Salmon pink now for a while and only had one moult from him what I would like to know is once a tarantula has moulted and you are now able to tell the sex will the T keep moulting or will it stop.
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Old 19-03-2010, 02:47 AM
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It'll keep moulting (as long as it's not an MM) but not very often
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Old 19-03-2010, 09:33 AM
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It will moult regularly until it reaches adult size. If it's male, it'll have a maturing moult where he gets the boxing glove look to his pedipalps and also hooks on his front legs. After that he was almost certainly not moult again and will live a year or two (they sometimes try and moult again but it generally kills them)

If it's female it will still moult as an adult, but maybe just once every year or two, and you won't see such obvious growth after a moult.
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