How Does A Tarantula Moult ?
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2021
- How Does A Tarantula Moult ?
Today we explore the wonderfull process of a spider moulting, this is something all spiders do a number of times throughout their lives in order to grow, we was lucky enough to catch one of our P.metallica females preparing to moult into her brand new attire and what a treat it was .
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You are the first person to actually explain HOW the molt works. I've watched them molt on probably 10 videos but you're the only one that EXPLAINED how they molt and about the fluid, the way they can regrow legs....I've learned so much from your ONE video. Thank you. I'll be watching you more than the others now. It's nice to have someone actually EXPLAIN how they molt and teach us things we didnt know.
Thank you so much ❤️👍
It is softening enzymes, that make their new (and larger) hide being able to fit within the old one, while they shed it. Then they pump the blood back out into their legs, during the next days after the molting process. That is where the spider actually grows. 😄👍
When it comes to spiders dave is the man!
I've seen house spider moult whilst hanging off silk
Watching this as exposure therapy. I will beat this phobia.
It works! 😊
It actually does work, and if you're not careful you may just end up owning one ;)
I love this channel, its different to the big budget nature docs, with scene after scene being cut. I prefer just watching one animal for 15/20 minutes and studying it closely as Dave gives out the facts. brilliant mate.
Man I feel like I'm watching somebody giving birth. This is do facinating, thank you for sharing
Your very welcome my friend ❤️👍
I have a real fear of spiders but I can honestly say that watching your videos are giving me a new found respect and admiration of these creatures. Thank you.
Welcome aboard! ❤️❤️❤️
That, is truly amazing to watch. I did not know that they would flip over. The hydraulics during molting reminds me of when butterflies emerge and their wings are all curled up and the abdomen is distended, taking time to pump the fluid to the wings.
Once again thankyou for another informative video. My kids, aged 5-21 all love watching your video. My youngest says Mr. Dave is her favorite teacher. Your knowledge you share has helped me throw the years of keeping healthy spiders
Dave does have that touch!
Thank you for standing up for the other Tarantula Tubers. I found your channel through them and it's been so helpful and educational.
That's the first time I've ever seem a spider moult, it was fascinating to say the least. Your spider channel is the best on YT dave I've never seen such events like these on anyone elses channel before. Thanks!
Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
That girl was just fascinating!!!
When she was lying on her back,
She looked like she was pushing baby
Out,contractions!! Just anazing,they
Get to be young and pritty again!!!
That was riveting . The poor thing looks exhausted and must be very vulnerable in the wild . Thank you for the camera work and commentary..first class !
Can't imagine I've worked that hard for a while Dave is the SPIDER MASTER Every now and then someone comes along on youtube Dave is one of these above and beyond dudes Well done Dave We all love your stuff AND camera lady of course Be lucky mate Pete
Thank you so much my friend 👍❤️
Still awake at 06.08am, FINALLY starting to feel sleepy, but of course i need to watch this 1st!🤣
Love watching Tarantulas moult, really fascinates me.
Thanks Dave!
Great Job Dave! This is as good as a National Geographic/BBC Nature presentation. Awesome Video and Correspondence. This should go Viral so more can see the Wonderful World of Spiders!!
Thank you so much really appreciate your support ❤️👍
I saw a video of a tarantula moulting and it was the start of me developing empathy towards them, instead of being terrified. It looks like such hard work and they look so tired afterward! The commentary was really interesting. Nature is amazing!
By total chance about 6 of my Spiders are somewhat on the same "timetable" regarding molting.
I have a Balfouri-group of four spiders from the same eggsag and they all molt out within max. two weeks distance and i have A. geniculata and a C. versicolor that happen to molt out around the same time like the Balfouris molt out too. So whenever the first Balfouri starts molting out, i can start to observe their terrariums more frequently. This way i've seen quite a few molts in the past two years... It's an absolutely fascinating procedure and somewhat like a miracle of nature.
Just had a bad molt with my h.pulchripes😞had him in ICU for 2 days 🤞🏻 hoping for the best but he still hasn't moved 💔
She worked hard for that new outfit!
Great luck for all of us you caught this. Fascinating, thanks Dave! 👍
"That was something special" indeed! I have seen this in full length for the first time and I absolutely loved it. Thank You for this!
Thanks for putting such great effort into this video Dave and Mrs Camera Lady. It must be a lot of work, with plenty of patience to sit up through the night. A beautiful spider!
Our pleasure!
Police: We are looking for a serial killer with blue legs and yellow dots.
Spider: Oh crap, time for a new disguise.
You're definitely my favorite tarantula channel. Very nice information, great footage.
Thank you 🙏
Great video Dave I know now what to expect Metallica moults 👍🏻
My guy is really wearing a jacket shirt and a regular shirt, and he's still poking through. Thats talent tbh
i love the way they shimmy out of their old exoskeleton, and how you can see the hooks and pads of their feet spread! i’ve always wondered about the science behind how they fit all that growth under their older tinier shells. thank you for the super informative and interesting video!
How neat is that! Thanks Dave and Camera Lady! ❤🇨🇦
I'm 26 years old and have only been scared of one thing in my life, spiders. Ever since I was a kid I've hated them. About a week ago I found your channel and for some reason you've made me love the creatures. So much that I want to get one of my own and hopefully more. The Gooty is definitely my favorite that I've come across and as you informed me on a different video, the sun tiger! Thank you for educating all of us and for everything you do for spiders and the spider community. Cheers!
Thats awsome thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
Welcome to the club!!! I wouldn’t get a Gooty as your first tarantula though. They are lightning fast, and have some of the most potent venom of any tarantula, although it won’t kill you. I’d start off with a “New World” tarantula if I were you, but ultimately, it’s your decision. New World tarantulas aren’t quite as fast, and aren’t usually aggressive either.
@@chesterswingjr9796 Oh yeah I definitely won't get a metalica for my first. I've been learning a lot. Thank you for your knowledge as well! I was thinking of going in the direction you mentioned as well.
@@VR-tj9ut - Good luck in whatever one you chose. I’m watching my Arizona Blonde moult right now. She’s been about an hour, and is all the way out, and now she’s moving her legs around to get the fluids flowing to them. It’s so cool to watch!!! Her fangs are so white right now, they look like ivory. It also looks like a very tiring, strenuous procedure. It’s also when they are the most beautiful, because their colors are at their brightest right after a moult.
@@chesterswingjr9796 Wow what timing! hahaha. I hope she moults perfectly and has no troubles my man. Everything about Tarantulas is incredible. I love this community.
Looks exhausting.
I think it is ❤️
This channel is helping me be able to look at spiders with out just being terrified.
Still don't ever want to touch them. But Instead of wanting to run away, I can look from afar. :3
Thanks Dave
My first T did this insider their home and couldn’t actually fit well enough to get out of her molt. I was really, really bummed out. She ended up coming out deformed and not right at all. 😢 My second T had a much better time in a better environment.
What does it say if she hasn’t molted in well over a year? Mine hasn’t molted in at least a year I think. It’s a rose hair.
Its always important to creat their enclosure with everything in mind 👍
Hi Dave, great video!
just a note Chitin is pronouced Kaitin. Just english being that 10 different languages under 1 big coat once again.
Hi Dave, Im also Dave lol
I got to watch my aphonopelma chalcodes , lol I stayed up to 4:30 just to watch the process
EDIT: Didn't think you would notice this but you have amazing content mate and deserve WAY more subscribers . Could you do more videos of Eggsac after they go into the "incubator" setup!
I feel like a little kid again. That was coool
She is so beautiful . Those colors are unreal
One of the best channels of tarantula keeping. Thank you good sir.
Wow, thanks
Hi dave thank you for showing this. It was fascinating. I have never seen a spider do a mult before and I didn't understand when someone else on UA-cam spoke about a spider moulting I enjoyed watching this mult take place.
Excellent and captivating video. Very informative and educational. David Attenborough would be impressed!
I second this!
Agree
Awesome video Dave!
This one was jam packed full of information! I knew most of the things you said about moulting because including your AMAZING channel, I follow 8 Tarantula channels ( Yours, Exotics Lair, The Dark Den, Tarantula Kat, The Tarantula Collective, Tarantula Haven, Tomas Pasie, Bug Realms, plus a few of them have side channels for random/short videos which I also follow including Richard’s Podcast channel ). But anyway considering I follow 8 channels, I’ve come to learn lots of moulting facts! Very nice job with this video!
I noticed your subscriber count has climbed since I looked yesterday evening! Awesome stuff Dave! And P.Mettalica is one of my favourite species!
Take care Dave!
See you Monday Matey! Looking forward to what you have in store for us next week!
Thank you so much for this video, Dave. This was still the part about Tarantulas that I was so creeped out by, I could not watch them molt. But your video, with your calm nature and voice made me able to watch it and actually see it in a whole different light. Not so creepy, now. Can't believe it, thank you!
Your very welcome ❤❤❤
If you really really want to learn about spiders Dave's little beasties is the best from the Bio tanks to his gentle nudging I have learned more about spiders by watching Dave's little beasties than all the other channels combined
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I get the feeling the person who discovered that spider was a metal fan.
Utterly fascinating stuff! Thank you so much, Dave!
You mentioned that as the spider was breathing in (4:53), then she was pulsing into her "new limbs". Does air actually travel into the legs? Is that part of the spiders normal locomotion, like a sea pig?
That WAS my question, but then I looked up a diagram to see, and I saw that the lungs, and their associated gas pathways, do not extend into the legs. Unfortunately, at the same time, I noticed that the digestive system DOES, and now I'm confused all over again. I see that the digestive system supplies not only the blood, but ALSO the reproductive system, and the silk glands. It appears to do this directly, and not through the blood. That is all very interesting (and leads me to wonder how complete the diagram I was studying is...). When she is pulsing during the molt, is the pressure she exerts on her new limbs exerted through the digestive system? It seems much larger than the circulatory pathways for the blood, but I imagine it could be both systems at once. You mentioned that she stopped eating shortly before the molt, and I assumed that was due to her now being larger than the shell she needed to exit. The idea of slimming down to squeeze out of a suit that's too small, I get. I do not get how she pulses pressure through an empty digestive system though, or is there still "juice" in it? Or is it just blood pressure doing all the work?
Their system basically works on like hydraulics as she forces fluid through her system she can retract herself from the old skin 👍
Really great vid as always, would love for you to do a guide on sexing moults one day, keep up the great work
We will see what we can do 👍
Best Molting Vid I have seen Mate. Best ever. Great info and thanks for posting. Also… wow, she is pretty and what a “girl”.
Tha nk you 👍
The fact that this was on your P.metallica is so awesome. I've never seen a molt happen live, thanks for sharing this.
What a stunning gorgeous spider 💓
Thank you! 😊
@@daveslittlebeasties you're welcome
Amazing...looks kinda like me trying to get out of a pair of pantyhose on a hot day. :o)
Absolutely fascinating video! It's brilliant to learn how molting actually happens. Thank you so much!
So beautiful! Thank you for showing! I love her spider bed.
You are so welcome!
Wow what an amazing vid loved seeing the moult in progress and great camera work ...
My GBB moulted 17 days ago and hasn’t moved from her web I am seriously concerned now, I know she’s knackered it takes a lot out of them but 17 days seems a long time to regain her strength
Thats nothing to worry about I have a Balfouri that hasn't left its moulting web for over a month ? if they are not hungry or thirsty then there is no need to move 👍
Your videos really are top notch Dave. Kudos to you both.
That was so neat. Thank you for sharing.
I got my Honduran curly haired about 2 months ago, almost 3wks ago, i noticed she had fluid around her joints, thought she was sick... she just molted today! She wouldn't eat when i noticed the fluid, then her abdomen went bald/pale! She's a beautiful blonde one!! She only put a little webbing over, i have a large coffee cup for her to roost, enclosure and can see legs everywhere😁 but her new ones are so vibrant and full of hairs!! She's in there chilling, n I'm hoping all went well!! Just very anxious to see if she's actually a female! I have noticed that males abdomens tend to not be as fat as a females, but want to make sure she is a she!
You will need to check its old moult to be certain unless this is its last moult as a male then he will be obvious 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties she still had not come out yet, but pushed her old legs out! I got them with tweezers, but the abdomen is still in there! It's doing good, I've been checking by blowing, so it will move! But, I'm going to try to feed this coming weekend, since it molted last weekend. Just hope it's a docile as before!😃 i got it for my son, but i think I've grown more impressed by it.
@@jennj3452 Wait until it comes out then feed it 👍
Facinating
wow, what footage! and what a spider to capture on film!
That was incredable to watch, She is in such a vunerable state laying there on her back, and so soft.. Great foorage Dave , that's the first time I've ever seen something like that..
Glad you enjoyed it
This was incredibly fascinating. Thank you for sharing it with us. 🙂👍
Such an amazing process they go through. Awesome video showing the stages of molting. :-)
Perfection as per usual dave 👌
brilliant video PROFF as usual with some very amazing information and facts about a spider moulting. the colours on the spider are so clear after a moult. thanks for sharing the video and some fine camera work form the camera lady..
Thanks matey 👍
That was an amazing watch! I saw a guy on youtube spray his spider as she was moulting didn't go well she ended up dying so he put her in dish water to end her suffering.
Thats very sad 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties I know, he said she wasn't moulting properly, so he sprayed her with water as he thought it might help. She got worse. Then he was googling all the different ways he could end her suffering, said he couldn't trample on her so he stuck her in dish water. It's awful really, I thought why not take her to a professional? I really enjoy your videos, they are really fascinating, you explain everything in detail but make it so it's easy to understand. I've subscribed and I think my son is interested as well. : - ) x
@@Fallen5321 Thanks for subbing its scary what some people do 👍😭
@@daveslittlebeasties No worries, I think people are just ignorant. They shouldn't be keeping exotic creatures like that if they don't know how to look after them. One particular creature i'm interested in is the camel spider be great if you could talk about those i'm un clear what exactly they are, but I believe they are prodominatly scorpion. Do you know much about them?
I think the Discovery Channel would be jealous of this video. Quality stuff Dave wow. Excellent work
Many thanks!
wow those fangs are so fresh and clean when they first pop out :0
Beautiful.
I love your channel Dave and have learnt so much from you,while I was doing my research on Tarantulas (for over 8 months)before I got my 1st T…I watched and watched your videos on care and husbandry on the Tarantulas I wanted to own.x👍🏼🕷
That is awesome!
My H. carolinensis grew back a full size leg, I think on the final molt. She could have another maybe, she's not a giant spider but big enough, never had one before so we'll see. I've never seen that before, you can usually tell the difference especially after just one molt.
I have never seen anything like that before, thank you go sharing that. I actually had no idea how mounting worked. The process must be exhausting for them.
This is beyond fascinating! Thank you for this detailed video with explanation of the entire moulting process. These creatures are true masterpieces of Mother Nature.
Glad it was helpful!
Mother nature is incredible!
Dave another brilliant video, very hard to catch your spiders moulting, so well done to you Dave. And your right Dave never bother with them when moulting. Anyway another brilliant job by yourself and camera lady, i always look forward to your videos Dave because they make for incredible viewing.
Thank you mate 👍❤️
@@daveslittlebeasties Your very welcome Dave.
Thats so amazing to watch them molt awesome
Amazing - and most educational. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Superb. So good to catch it on film. In over 30 years of keeping spiders I have only seen it happen a few times. Thanks for sharing that. Beautiful spider too.
9:28 Awesome video! One comment to add: The hooks on the toes are only one mechanism for climbing. An article by National Geographic states that tarantulas also spin fine silk from their feet, which enables them to climb sheer surfaces such as glass.
Er...very carefully?
Come on, you were expecting that...
Is it just me or at time Mark 7:37 it looks like the tarantula has a two eyeballs and a mouth
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my P. met moulted in a very strange position during its last moult tight and vertical. i finally found that moss ive been searching for and i hit the mother load the other day for moss branches.
Hello great video information Dave
Thanks matey 👍
7:08 "Will not get any bigger." Makes sense, but what allows the abdomen to get larger/smaller in between moults?
They are quit elastic 👍
@@daveslittlebeasties Quite right! I just did a little research concerning tarantula molting: "As the new exoskeleton hardens, the spider maintains blood pressure in the cephalothorax and legs to stretch them into a slightly larger size than previously. The abdomen has a flexible covering, and it is this area that appears shrunken during the transfer of fluid to the expanded cephalothorax and legs. Just after molting, the body proportions are a bit unusual, with the abdomen being small. A few meals will solve this discrepancy, and the spider's proportions are quickly restored." ["Common Spiders of North America," by Richard A. Bradley.] So, the abdomen is flexible, but the rest of the spider is a rigid exoskeleton.
@@lgkfamily Once hardened yes 👍
It is a miracle of the wonders of creation.
That's so cool you were blessed with getting to see the whole process!! Thanks for sharing!!
Amazing seeing the legs of the molt move while her body is presumably out of that part.
Always a sight to behold :) I've managed to catch one of my Ts flipping on its back and right back only once. It was with my G. porteri. Absolutely magical moment. And thank you Dave for touching up on the importance of internal hydration vs attempting to spray the enclosure.
In theory, if a spider feeds well and drinks occasionally leading up to the molt, it ought to be a smooth procedure. Only older animals ought to experience issues. In 12 years of keeping, I have yet to experience issues, but I know the likelihood increases as they get older.
Stay safe and thanks for sharing :)
Wonderful video
It means they trust you when they show you their bellies.
😂😂😂👍
Wow that amazing I don't even like spiders but I love Tarantulas
Thank you for sharing this special moment.
This channel definitely deserves way more subscribers such a cool and brilliant channel 🙌🏼
Great video and even better description. Thanks Dave!
Glad you liked it!
Can't believe I haven't seen this until now. Awesome, awesome footage! ty!
Very frickin cool! I never realized till I found this channel a couple weeks ago how bad I need a spider.
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Thanks for sharing! Fascinating little beasts.
Another great upload. I’m becoming a bit of a fanboy. Great to see videos of this nature that hit on the science as well, makes us all better keepers. Thanks for staying up late!
I found this video fascinating. Is this something that all spiders do, like say a daddy long legs? What a beautiful spider!!!
Techincally they arent spiders per say since they only have 2 eyes, but yes they do moult.
@@ThePowerOf1996 Oh they're not... are they insects?
Wow this is amazing watching the molting spider
amazing and beautiful.
Thank you! 😊