My cousin's curly has not shed in two years and she started molting last week Friday she is still on her back now
is this normal or could she be dead?
thanks

Wow, that seems like an extremely long time to molt.
Probably got stuck and died due to old age.

Perhaps if you could get us a picture of the current state we could better determine the issue.
I had my G pulchripes female lie on her back ready to molt for a day, only to later get up and wait another 2 weeks before trying again. But wasn't this long.
Has the carapace separation already occurred? Is it stuck half-way with legs still in old exuvium? Or is dit just lying on it's back?

You're not maybe related to Emelia? She told me of a curly that molted 94 hours the last time, and is in molt again.

Geopad2 wrote: You're not maybe related to Emelia? She told me of a curly that molted 94 hours the last time, and is in molt again.

94 HOURS!!! That is insane. 4 days to molt. How old is the specimen?

Wow that would be amazing... 4 days? I would like someone to verify that statement The amount of energy that T would spend in 4 days of trying to moult could prove fatal to normal Ts

It's something I heard from Emelia, she is on this site, I have her on BBM too. I also found it astounding that a T could take that amount of time. She did also state that it is a VERY large specimen. So my guess is it is very old too, and if the the last molt took that amount of time, and this one even longer, this might very likely be her last molt, be that as it may, if she survives this molt. I am not sure if she was maybe referring to the same specimen though.


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