Quiz - what's unusual about this molting T?

ogershok · Quiz - what's unusual about this molting T?

This will be obvious to all the old timers but let's see if any of the newbies can see what's so odd here.

Krawll

I don't see anything wrong here ::lol:: .

I'm getting curious to know what it is though Razz

rosenkrieger

The palps almost look mature male-ish. I could be wrong though. Only other thing I can see is arboreal T molting on the ground.

balam

molting through the top Laughing

ogershok

Rosenkrieger is really close but that's not an arboreal. It's a B. albopilosum. A fully mature male and one that has already bred. He's the male from the video I posted a while back.

http://s139.photobucket.com/album...urrent=albopilosummating_0004.flv

This is a POST-ULTIMATE molt. (Balam needs glasses.) Here's a close up of the palps.

He didn't do well with this molt. Not surprising. These seldom come out well. He lost a leg and both pedipalps and is really scrawny and long legged. Deformities are common with a post-ultimate molt. Here's the ugly picture:

Anyone else ever have one of these happen?

WBurke17

I had a rosea dbl molt. Does he have two sets of hooks now? Mine did.

noexcuse4you

Oh man! I would've thrown him in the freezer as soon as I saw him on his back. Postultimate molts almost never turn out well.

ogershok

ogershok

WBurke17

Heres mine. He lived another 2 -3 months without his palps. the rest of him looked normal except for the hooks

rosenkrieger

Wow, I knew they could do that, but I didn't know it usually turned out so bad like that.

Celeste

Eww! I hope my P. regalis male doesn't try to molt again. It has been a year and five months since he molted out to adult, and he's still kicking.