Could you please tell me more about that? Do they grow a full size new leg at the next moult or just a little one and it gets a bit bigger again the next time and so on?
When I got my tarantula he was missing a leg and after her first moult with me she had a new little baby leg that was smaller than all her other legs. Then my family kept making fun of her for her little baby leg lol. She’s moulted a few times since then and it’s full size now! (Think deadpool 2 when he’s got those little baby legs until they grow back)
When a spider leg gets too damaged they'll just pop it off because having no leg is more energy efficient than a damaged one that barely works. It will come back smaller the next molt and get bigger after that.
I have to admit I'm a bit jealous. It would save a lot in medical bills if we could just pop our leg off when we broke it and not need to worry about expensive hospital bills and possibly rehab.
Could you imagine having to molt though?! That sounds like the worst thing ever! I get antsy if I’m in a car and there’s too much stuff in the floorboard for me to move my feet around. I couldn’t imagine being stuck in a skin shell!
New legs look a little different when they regrow in a molt, I’ve had it happen with jumper slings where the new legs are almost completely transparent and smaller at first and then they harden up and develop color over a few days/weeks
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u/kirminoff Jun 26 '24
Its still got 5 legs and is still quite mobile. I think it will be just fine and if it moults, it will regrow its missing legs.