Again from St. Louis MO. I thought I would share my D. tenebrosus pics from her shedding last night. My 2 year old is utterly fascinated by her and has to peer into her tank like 40 -50 times a day, so he pointed out that she had something wrong. Then watched her for the next half hour standing on a chair while she pulled herself out of the old skin and dried herself. I have to admit it was my first time watching the event so I was fairly fascinated too.
Did you manage to snap any photos while she was molting? That would be interesting to see.
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The second pic shows her extracting the last of her legs from the old skin. Unfortunately she was in her hiding tube when she started. She swelled up for a couple days, then blam, off it came.
Nice! You must be taking great care of her (or him :-).
Eric
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