I call the EWL without a carapace and WITH a carapace 1st stage and 2nd stage nymphs respectively.

Ceratogyrus wrote: Why all the SHOUTING?! Is something making you angry?

I'm not shouting :whistle: :laugh:

I just said according to RobC, Just shedding some light on the different opinions. Going to read Stanley's book soon on this subject

All together we have our separate opinions I just thought i'd give mine

Like I said, as long as everyone understands what instar you are talking about, it doesn't really matter.

I can unfortunately not see your face or hear you talk, so when posting online, if you use CAPS and exclamation marks, it denotes that you are shouting.

guess who's got 4 nymphs from a rotten G.rosea (rcf) eggsack - doing the Tarantula dance "you don't want to see the dance"
ooohhh yeah! This is the first of more to come. Saved no more than 20 eggs from the golf ball called an egg sack and during my maintenance egg rotation saw my first 4 nymphs. "PS: still doing the tarantula dance" :woohoo:

Vinzy wrote: According to RobC in this Video:

Eggs with legs just have a little piece of "skin?" that falls off their abdomen and that is how it goes to a normal arachnid shape... It is not a true molt, it is rather a MERGE!!! Not a molt... a MERGE.

Then they molt after that and it is 1st instar, 2nd instar and so on. 2nd instar is when they start darkening, get some hair, look older etc.

Hope that clears things up!

if u look at the 1st pic the (nymph.....egg with legs) already has hair on the abdoman so is tha an 1st or a 2nd instar then it looks like an egg with legs

I have three legs with two HUGE EGGS.... Thought I might be half spider.... Explains alot...