Molt problem

Hi people.

My chaco golden knee has had a molt but its old 'skin' is still slightly attatched at the very back of the abdomon (spelling). he seems to be ok,, he is still moving about fine n etc.. but its been attatched for about 4 days now. i dont really know if i should pull it off or not. this is my first T and ive never had this problem with any of my scorps before so i dont really know what to do. cheers. i can get pics if you wanna see.


oh yea sorry for the adsence on the forum,, had few things to sort out.

Ok fella this will also account for, for future moults

First thing first, because of the 4 day span, of the exo being stuck, i first want you to put water on the area with a Q-TIP or a twisted peice of tissue. Dab the are with water several times in the space of 2 mins, so say for that 2 mins, dab the area with water say about, 6 times !!

I want you to do this for 5 minuites straight, so that will be 15 times dabbed with water. I want you to use very very VERY mild warm water (*almost cold*)...

after that 5 minuite period of dabbing water on, take your tweezers and hold onto the old EXO (moult) and do not pull. just hold it.

Then try and encorage the spider to walk, this way the spider will react accordingly with just enough pull to allow the moult to litterally pop off. DO NOT PULL !!!!! just hold in place.

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If this does not work, do your best to remove the old moult, take as much of it away as possible.

Good luck, and let me know the out come

Alright mate, hope all's been well.

Damn, that's a gutter about the moult. Sound's like bug_er_me knows what he's talking about, I'd definitely give it a try. Good luck mate.

hey.

got the old exo off,, took some time and a lot of patience but finally come off. cheers for the help bug_er_me


hey jamie, yeah all has been well bro, just been well busy with work and other stuff. ive got you on my xbox friends list now bro,, we will have to kill some mofo's

Glad you were able to remove the old one.

glad to hear you fixed the molt problem we recently lost our little unknown scorpion to a bad molt poor little fella glad to see you back on the forum it has been really dead on here none of the original peeps have been on for ages with the exception to myself jamie and h.lacticus, wondered where everyone had gone lol, plenty of new guys have joined though

Sweet buddy glad you got it off, has it moulted any more times since you got it? Remember we got our G. pulchripes around the same time, mine has only moulted the once.

Yeah I see you pop up on xbox live every now and then. Definatly mate, still smashing Battlefield aint ya? Oh and hope you don't mind I saw you had a scorpion pet with your avatar, I just had to have one aswell haha

Shame about your Het. sp. Bex Did you see that my Scorpio maurus died? How's yours doing? Now that I think of it I'm not very happy with the Scorpio maurus BugzUK sold me, if you remember they were sold under large but mine was tiny. I saw the Scorpio maurus Scorpio from here (confusing I know) brought at the seas show and it was 4-5 times the size.

JamieLawrence wrote:

Shame about your Het. sp. Bex Did you see that my Scorpio maurus died? How's yours doing? Now that I think of it I'm not very happy with the Scorpio maurus BugzUK sold me, if you remember they were sold under large but mine was tiny. I saw the Scorpio maurus Scorpio from here (confusing I know) brought at the seas show and it was 4-5 times the size.

No I didn't see that did you post on here? Sorry to hear that do you know why it died? Ours was sold as adult too but they are tiny and funnily one of ours was a mysorensis lol if you remember so not 100% sure that Martin is on the ball if you know what I mean, we have had 2 orders messed up and he's been good about it but think he's more into T's n stuff than scorpions.... Maybe..... I dunno lol, ours are still all alive at the mo

And yeah I saw one at the show on polypeds ( can't even remember if that what it's called ) stand and it was twice the size of ours so am real confused, also had our hardy sold as an adult from predator or prey an she's tiny too

Nope don't know why it died, wasn't a bad molt or anything. Yeah I remember your two orders, not good really but at least you gained from it It's a shame because he has the best selection of scorps on the net in the UK I think.

That's it Polyped, I keep forgetting that too.

Better keep an eye on ours then, how's yr madras doing? Ours have just hone through another molt lol the larger 3 of the 5 anyway

Yours will be fine, I must have done something wrong.

Baby madras is doing good, looks like it's about to explode so reckon a molt will be soon.

If you remember I got an adult female and male from the show. I'm planning on trying to mate them soon.

Aw cool let us know how you get on will have some scorplings off You lol

Yeah I'd definitely sort out you and Manser If the pairing works out. I know you two asked when I had the spinigerus babies but that didn't work out. These should be easier to raise.

JamieLawrence wrote:

Sweet buddy glad you got it off, has it moulted any more times since you got it? Remember we got our G. pulchripes around the same time, mine has only moulted the once.

Yeah I see you pop up on xbox live every now and then. Definatly mate, still smashing Battlefield aint ya? Oh and hope you don't mind I saw you had a scorpion pet with your avatar, I just had to have one aswell haha

Shame about your Het. sp. Bex Did you see that my Scorpio maurus died? How's yours doing? Now that I think of it I'm not very happy with the Scorpio maurus BugzUK sold me, if you remember they were sold under large but mine was tiny. I saw the Scorpio maurus Scorpio from here (confusing I know) brought at the seas show and it was 4-5 times the size.

nah mines only just had the one molt,, still very tiny at the moment,, probably legspan of a 50p atm still a long way to go yet,,,, but i got another T today,, i got a Red Rump its a juvenile and its a fast lil fella,,,almost escaped when transfering him into his new home lol

also i might be getting a Desert hairy of my mates bro ,,fingers crossed anyway.

got a pic of what had happend with my chaco golden knee




and heres my Red rump that i got today

JamieLawrence wrote:

Yeah I'd definitely sort out you and Manser If the pairing works out. I know you two asked when I had the spinigerus babies but that didn't work out. These should be easier to raise.

Cool can't wait!
desperate for an adult male for our female emp to start some mating off

Nice new T manser!! Here's a pic of what happened with our scorpion in the bad molt...




I managed to get him out after a lot of soaking and careful surgery but he didn't make it think it was too late by the time he came out of his burrow for help bless him

It sucks to lose a pet, my fist scorpion loss came from getting one shipped to me back when botar was still in effect before he sold to kenthebugguy.

sorry bout the loss bex,,, i was quite lucky with my T cos as you can see in the pic it was pretty much all off apart from that last little bit.

Manser wrote:

sorry bout the loss bex,,, i was quite lucky with my T cos as you can see in the pic it was pretty much all off apart from that last little bit.

Thanx, I know it sucks! Dent even get to find out what he was Poor lil guy his head was like bent across the middle looked well messed up knew he wouldn't make it but was kind hoping, glad yr T is ok though, need to fill a few empty tanks now think a trip to sheerness is in order now it's a bit warmer get a big colony going

Sweet new T mate, that's more of a tarantula size! Where'd you get it from? I got a couple new T's recently not sure if you saw them. Trying to convince Bex to get one for one of those empty tanks

Lol dunno if the tanks I have are suitable for a T these are the 3 empty ones one an aquaseal so no ventilation and the others are quite small/shallow

Yeah I see what you mean. The Clearseal would be perfect for a T all through adult hood but as you say lid has no ventilation and they're not exactly the most secure lid are they. That's sort of why I went off them because of my nosey dogs.

so maybe 3 new scorps and a new tank for a new T lol

Haha I love your way of thinking! Got any ideas? I get dangerous with that sort of thinking lol I have quite a few empty tanks in the loft, 3 of those clearseals for a start but just don't have the space to use them. My rack is nearly full I need a new rack

JamieLawrence wrote:

Sweet new T mate, that's more of a tarantula size! Where'd you get it from? I got a couple new T's recently not sure if you saw them. Trying to convince Bex to get one for one of those empty tanks

i got it from wiltons mate down pound lane,, usally i dont get stuff from there cos they got a bit of a bad name for themself but theve seem to uped their game abit,,, had some desert hairys n whip scorps in there.