Keith Posted July 18, 2014 Author Share Posted July 18, 2014 I have a female and saw her molt twice, she was white, never yellow at any point, mabye only males have this at shedding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpython Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Those are FIRE! Am I understanding that they are only that color during exoskeleton hardening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wodesorel Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Keith - I think it's only for their penultimate and/or final molt. I've never seen the smaller ones yellow before, only the big ones. And yes, it's only when they're hardening. Usually they molt in the middle of the night after the lights go off, and by morning if you're lucky they have just a twinge of the yellow left on the edges that showed they had molted. I have a decent sized colony and I've caught maybe a dozen or so when they were still fully yellow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Keith - I think it's only for their penultimate and/or final molt. I've never seen the smaller ones yellow before, only the big ones. And yes, it's only when they're hardening. Usually they molt in the middle of the night after the lights go off, and by morning if you're lucky they have just a twinge of the yellow left on the edges that showed they had molted. I have a decent sized colony and I've caught maybe a dozen or so when they were still fully yellow. I've seen the post and final molt, I actually witnessed it and set up a portable camera to show hours after, never was yellow ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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