QUICK HELP !!!!

WHY IS MY NEW TARANTULA ON ITS BACK ???, I JUST WENT UPSTAIRS TO CHECK ON IT AND IT IS ON ITS BACK, I TOUCHED ITS LEG AND IT MOVED , SO ITS STILL ALIVE BUT WHY IS IT ON ITS BACK, IS IT GONNA DIE OR IS IT MOLTING ??? I JUST GOT IT LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, AND ITS ONLY THE NEXT MORNING. HELP !! WHATS HAPPENING ??

AND THERE IS A WEB AROUND IT A LITTLE BIT

SORRY EVERYONE, I PANIC'D AND POSTED THIS BECUASE I THOUGHT MY TARANTULA WAS DEAD, I HOPE I DIDNT DISTURB IT BY TOUCHING ITS LEG, I LOOKED IN MY TARANTULA KEEPERS GUIDE AND IT SAID ITS MOLTING, LAST NIGHT I STOPPED READING IT WHEN I GOT TO THE MOLTING SECTION BUT IF I WOULD HAVE KEPT READING I WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT TARANTULAS MOLT ON THERE BACK, SORRY FALSE ALARM. THANKS FOR READING .

every few hour i look into the cage to see its progress, it legs were up, but then last time i checked they went limp, like flat, and one leg started going up and moving.

just leave the T to it and try not to panick

shes done !! lol wow i was worried about her. i got the skin out of the cage its pretty cool, and the tarantula looks awesome now that it molted...... but when can i feed it, ive never had a tarantula molt before this is my first time, my other one is a mature male so it doesnt molt, how many days untill i can feed her ???????????????

emperor5 wrote:

my other one is a mature male so it doesnt molt

1. Im not exacly sure you also have a mature male , juding by your other posts it ws never very clear ..i think pics would confirm.
Just because it is mature doesnt mean it "does not molt" it can molt...which would most likely die doing but will probably die before that time comes anyway

2. Wait about one week before feeding for the tarantulas fangs to harden up.

3. You can use the molt to sex the tarantula. Look for spermathacae in the molt (this will take doing some research)

Best of luck

i looked at the spermatheca on the molt and it is definetly a female, and cupid is a male he has black bulbs on his pedipalps and hooks on his front legs.

cool