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Sorry for the shoddy photo quality, blame my sister for that. This is Damen, an unsexed jumper she bought back at the end of April at an expo (but like a decent expo, not like the ones I read about in horror stories 0_0) he’s been eating flightless fruit flies pretty regularly since she got him but has been refusing food for the last week, so ofc I advised that he was in pre moult since he’s pretty young as well, and the timing seemed about right. However, we’re worried as this does not seem to be a typical position for molting. He’s just lying on his back at the bottom of his enclosure, which is very odd. I advised my sister not to touch him in case it is a molt so as to not disturb him. She mists part of the enclosure regularly for moisture, and keeps an eye on the temp and humidity via an electronic thermometer thing in the cage.

Further info— Damen hasn’t been handled at all yet. He was a bit sleepy the day prior to this photo, and the uk has been dealing with a nasty heatwave this week, so there was a point when his enclosure was over 30 degrees Celsius before she was able to cool it down again. Afaik my sister didn’t use any potentially harmful chemicals in her room, I’ve drilled her a few times about the risks of seemingly safe chemicals and scented products around animals and she’s absolutely the kind of person to take that seriously. I did watch a video with a lady in a car giving advice on molting jumpers and she mentioned that sometimes they can be positioned weirdly (certainly some other spoods don’t seem to care where they molt, esp huntsmans lol) but I’m struggling to find info online for this specific case. This is my sister’s first jumper and first invertebrate pet. I have a few years experience keeping tarantulas but know comparatively quite little about jumpers. Any help is appreciated enormously.