What a day!

So I was doing my feeding rounds this evening and I have found three more moults! Although in truth it wasn't as easy as that!

My G.rosea's moult was easy enough to find, although it had taken me a little bit by surprise because she never seemed to go through the pre-moult phase; she hasn't been off her food and she hadn't really changed colour.

Then I came to my A.purpurea, and noticed that she was a lot more 'shiny' and a lot bigger. After a lot of rooting round, I found her moult, tucked away nicely on the bit of greenery I have in for her. This one I was really chuffed about though, because Avic's need really high humidity, around 80% to be able to survive and obviously its hard to monitor that in such a small setup.

With all that behind me, and nearly everyone given a cricket, I decided to have a root around in my three slings that like living underground; my C.marshalli, N.chromatus and C.fasciatum.

First up was the Nhandu, and Jesus did she give me a scare! After around a minute of very light digging around and removing of substrate, I came across some legs which were not moving, and slowly digging away I found what looked like a dead sling! As you can imagine, my heart sank a little but I wanted to make sure. Thankfully though after a little bit more digging I could see some movement and there she popped out, making it my third successful moult today! Ofcourse, I don't know when she moulted, but I guess it was within the last week as she is still quite pale.

Anyway, I then proceeded to dig out the other two, and both of them are massive! I dug them both out completely but could find no trace of a moult, so I'm guessing they're now both in pre-moult, which would tie in nicely with their feeding records; the C.fasciatum hasn't eaten now for a whole week!

Kurt out.