Well, tonight there are some new developments...some good, some bad. While the 1 that had a spot did molt, the 1 that still had not developed the spot died. While it was the slowest to develop, it was eating well, and I was hoping to see it get the spot soon. On the other hand, as I said, the last one with the spot did molt. One more step out of the way. So that leaves 60 left that have already molted at least once since I have gotten them...with a total of 61 still alive. I almost forgot to mentions. The one I thought yesterday was dying is still hanging on. I took a picture to post, but I really thing that by tomorrow it will have passed on.

Here you can see it's in a death curl. When I first opened the container I thought it was on it's back. It was so hard to tell. Only with the magnification of my camera could I tell for sure that it is right side up and in a death curl. This is the most prolonged death among these guys that I have seen so far.
  Here is another photo.

Most of them have a rather round dark spot on their opisthosoma(abdomen). It seems that as they feed and their opisthosoma expands the dark spot tends to take on a rectangular shape. I was trying to document this through this photo. In some of the larger ones where the opisthosoma has expanded even more, the dark spot seems to have become a pronounced triaglular shape. At first I thought I was imagining this, but it's true. Some people think the dark spot it made up of urticating bristles, although the one time my Brachypelma boehmei kicked at me, it didn't seem like it was rubbing the dorsal part of its opisthosoma, maybe it was. It happened oh so quickly. Maybe the changing from a round patch to a triangle is purely because of these bristles being rubbed off.

  Here is yet another photo.

As I mentioned much earlier, I try to leave their food in the center of the container. Her you can see the spiderling more in the center of the photo, while the head and thorax of the baby cricket is at the bottom go the photo. The spiderling has dragged the abdomen to the edge of the container at the top of the photo. Most of them do still carry their meals to the edge of the containers. Some just eat them where they find them...lazy buggers.