Chilean Fire Tarantula Molt (Time Lapsed)

OK everybody, I promised you a timelapsed video of this as soon as I figured out how to do it, and here it is. Oh, and being that I am only human, I completely forgot to crop out the rest of the music before I finallized the movie, so if you like the music, then listen to it through the entire video. If not, then stop watching after the movie says, "Thanks for watching".

I only recorded some of the end of the actual video, because I had limited tape space, And I wanted to get the spider when it rolled over.

Music: "Kingdom Come" by Coldplay (tribute to Johny Cash)

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• wildlife
• Molt
• ouch
• Chilean
• Fire
• Tarantula
• Rose
• Haired
• Grammostola
• Rosea
• Red
• Phase

[memorysthought]

yeah. that is part of life. im dealing with it pritty good i guess. i'm going to annoy the heck out of my out store when im ready to get a nother one. good luck with your Seemani. ^^ and thanks again for your advice. ill keep it in mind for my next one.

[IloveSPIDERZ]

Thanks! But yeah, DON"T GIVE UP! 

Take care!

Joe Hollner

[memorysthought]

thank you for youre help... but reguretfully there was nothing i could do, the humitity was right but she never got out. she passed away yesterday i belive, but im still hopeing maybe there is a chance she might make it... its been ,,, 5 days about, so im sure there is no chance... thank you though.

[IloveSPIDERZ]

Man, I'm sorry. I'm still waiting for 2 years now, for my immature A. Seemani to molt, but it isn't showing any signs. I'm worrying about her. Hope for the best, pepare for the worse. That's also a part of life. Every living thing dies! I'm sorry there wasn't anything you could do, and I'm sorry if I were too late.

[memorysthought]

well, she did a little bit this morning when i was at work, her fangs and abdomen are free, but she hasnt poped the back peace off or started working on her legs. she hasn't really moved at all today. maybe I'm jumping the gun but I'm really scared, i love her very very much.

[IloveSPIDERZ]

This will work if humidity is and has been close to 100%. You may be there an hour or two! But don't even touch the legs or the spider may bleed to death. If the spider has one leg stuck, pull it off. The spider can do better than you think with 6 or 7 legs, and they may grow back. If you noticed the spider made more progress, disregard everything, keep that humidity up, and pray it works out!! Refer to

Jon3800, because he is more of a spider expert than I am.

[neil17z]

nice vid man!!

I had a curly hair tarantula about ten years ago. I'm glad i got to see it molting once, cuz a few months later it had a 'fight' with my sister's cat, and it stopped eating since. it died about 3 months after that fight. I got really bummed out and didn't bother getting a new one, since I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong and didn't want to risk the chance of losing another one.

[callumm1990]

Have a look at my channel there's a video of my Chilean Rose molting

[Rahrhino]

I love the lighting and composition of this piece... very beautiful

[IloveSPIDERZ]

OK, if that's the case, you have to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL on what I'm going to tell you to do next. This can only work if the humidity is at at least 90 percent. This may not work otherwise, and it may be stuck permantantly. Take a pair of tweezers, and assist her. NO SHAKING, AND NO GRABING THE LEGS! Actually, try not to even touch the legs. Only grab the exoskeleton. TAKE YOUR TIME, AND DO IT LIKE YOU'RE DOING SURGERY! Touch the legs, and the spider might bleed to death.

[IloveSPIDERZ]

Yeah, many hobbyists fear the molt. If that's the case though, I will have to tell you to do something else, bu you have to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL!!!!!!!!!!!! If the humidity is up, you can do this. Take tweezers, and assist the spider in the molt. You need to do it like it's surgery. EXTREMELY SLOWLY< NO SHAKING!! DO NOT grab the legs, grab the exoskeleton. Though, I'm going to warn you, and I'm really sorry to say, it may be too late. If the humidity is down, she may be permantly stuck.