So my second baby I recieved as a birthday gift has finally decided to molt, and it has been long over due, I got her on my birthday the 24th August 2012, and I was in the clouds, my first pokie and my first old world tarantula, on the 13th November 2012 I peeked into the little borrow she made herself as instinct told me just have a look, and low and behold I could see some black legs and something brown to the side, so I went to bed very excited indeed, hoping to see her soon out of her borrow where she has been hiding the past three weeks.

The next morning I was more surprised by her actions, as she took it upon herself to push the old skin out, as if to say to me, look I have had my molt and just relax your friggen bum, I am fine and got a new look, when I am ready I will come out and you can ooohhh and aaahhh over me okay.

So this is how Mental looked since the day I got her....




And after almost three months, this how she looks after her molt, her first one with me since I became her new owner...







I will admit, Mental is my favourite of the four T's I have and she is my pride and joy.

Some more pics I took of Mental this morning, she is not hiding anymore.... :angel:

So awesome to hear that your pokie is now your favourite!!!

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congrats, Ornata is know as one of the prettiest Pokies in the hobby, pray for a female and
you will be doing more aaaahhh and wwwhhhhooos way more often, trust me. :thumbsup:

Thank you Dave, I am really hoping for a female, as it is already, my friend I got Mental from, bought one for himself, and they both came out the same egg sac, and strangely enough, his P. Ornata had a molt almost three weeks before Mental, I tried to study his P. Ornanta yesterday, to see if I could make out any other differences between the two, but to no avail, it hid most of the day, so now I am just going to go along with the waiting game, and wait when Mental reaches a big enough size to sex her and my friends P. Ornata.

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Hey Vixen, don't know if you have seen yet, but Creator has a female P. Ornata for sale for only 800( what a steal)
I would recommend you look into it, as if your little guy turns male you have a wifey for him, or if yours
turns female, its twice as nice summer with 2 females.

Just a thought, if I were a pokie collector I would be very interested in such a deal as good as that.

Food for though :whistle: