All right, you guys, we got something pretty cool that happened
this morning that I've never really caught on camera before.
And it happened in the tailless whip scorpion tank. Let's take a closer look!
This tailless whip scorpion just got done molting, and this white one is actually the freshly molted scorpion.
This is his skin.
Whoa! That is so cool!
Yeah, it'll take him quite a while to darken back up to that color, but...
yeah, right now he's very soft and delicate so we can't mess with him,
But yeah, that's the old skin. That's really cool. I've never seen one do that before. That's cool.
They usually do it in secret. This guy, he did it like totally out and about.
He's moving around.
He must have JUST got done.
You can see his pincers there.
There you can see his butt is actually pretty dark right now.
It's that little black blob kinda hanging under him from this angle.
He got big.
It's amazing how much they grow per molt.
All right, so we have got the shed skin... shed skin.... We got the MOLT out.
and this is what it looks like. It's very flat.
But yeah, that is what a molt looks like.
Really super small compared to what came out of it,
that's for sure.
And then if we go over here, we had another...
thing molt.
This praying mantis used to be that size,
and then he molted overnight. There's his molt.
It looks like a dead mantis in there, but it's not. It's just his skin.
And he is all fresh too. Hopefully these crickets won't pick on him. I don't
think they will. He'll... he'll grab them before they even try anything. Won't ya?
Yeah.
He's actually starting to darken up a little bit. He was actually much lighter earlier,
but yeah, he'll darken up nice.
I don't think these guys molted though.
These guys are just hangin' out.
But... oh dear, it looks like they're gettin' busy with it over there.
That's what these bugs are up to today. Hey!
Yeah, they're actually actively breeding right now.
That's definitely something I haven't seen. I've never seen these guys breeding before.
These guys are like really super active. Much more active than I'm used to.
They like to come out in the morning and evening it seems like.
They are really cool though.
And you don't have to worry about feeding them live food. They eat like dead crickets.
So yeah, our insects and our tailless whip scorpions are getting up to all sorts of shenanigans today.
Hey, and look who else shed last night!
He shed! Look, he's got his big old skin in there! Tyler - Oh, he's definitely gonna be ready to eat now!
I wonder... I don't think it's full though, so we won't be able to hang it up. Darn!
So... man! Everybody's shedding their skin today!