Horrifying Naked Molting Progress

Mokulele_Hawai'i · Post by **Mokulele_Hawai'i** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:20 am

One of my medium-sized indos was caught during his surface ecdysis. And surprisingly, he chosed to abandon his shell molt outside.

This is the indo with 2 BPs. I immediately removed him from the isolation tank for an observation:

He was struggling to free his forward carapace section:

Finally, the carapace & eyes were out, but his right claw and outermost right leg were still stuck in the exoskeleton :

Sadly, today he has deliberately casted his right pincer off - so I have no more indos with 2 BPs

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:23 am

Neat... Weird... and mildly gross. No matter how often I've read it in text books and understand the mechanisms, it's not the same as seeing real pics of it. Diagrams are just so.... Sterile.

And I'm sorry he cast off his pincher.

hermiefanatic · Post by **hermiefanatic** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:25 pm

im sorry! let us know how hes doing!

Mokulele_Hawai'i · Post by **Mokulele_Hawai'i** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:30 pm

He's OK until today. He has started consuming his exo - and the new exo is still soft.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:49 pm

Wow! Its so cool, so freaky and...yucky....

Hopefully he regrows his BP......

Cool molt n Congrats (it is a molt, isn't it?)!

Hermy88 · Post by **Hermy88** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:11 am

WHOA..........

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:41 am

OK....that's kinda cool and gross all at the same time.

But congrats on the molt all the same! [smilie=banana.gif]

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:58 am

richnsuew wrote:OK....that's kinda cool and gross all at the same time.
But congrats on the molt all the same! [smilie=banana.gif]

Kinda reminds me of when I was a kid and had to touch just about anything that I found gross even though it made my skin crawl. lol I, of course, also had to try my best to not shudder or wipe my hand after because all my friends were boys and I had to prove I could take it. :roll:

Tetracolor · Post by **Tetracolor** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:14 am

Wow... congrats on witnessing it, but still it's kinda gross. Sorry it lost its BP. Keep us updated.

hermietastic · Post by **hermietastic** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:51 am

Awww, poor guy! Yeah, I have to agree with everyone else!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:31 pm

Even though not pleasant to look at, thank you for sharing this most interesting event with us. Glad to hear he's doing well.