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<blockquote data-quote="L_B" data-source="post: 83757" data-attributes="member: 7767"><p>Thanks for the reply. </p><p></p><p>I don't think it's that, she's always been on moist vermiculite and I don't think it would have coated her spinnerette in the way it did. Plus when the first white lump was noticed, it was very much like the white faeces. Unless it was faeces that somehow stuck there, and the white powdery stuff is from the powdery parts of the vermiculite, so two things happening. She used to be on a coarser vermiculite, and when I cleaned the enclosure a few months ago I had to use fine because there was no coarse available. I sometimes mix it wither other substrates and moss. I might do that again and see if it makes a difference. I don't think it is that though, I think it would have been picked up in the lab test.</p><p></p><p>Can they leak urates (if it is urates?) form their behinds if there is a problem?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L_B, post: 83757, member: 7767"] Thanks for the reply. I don't think it's that, she's always been on moist vermiculite and I don't think it would have coated her spinnerette in the way it did. Plus when the first white lump was noticed, it was very much like the white faeces. Unless it was faeces that somehow stuck there, and the white powdery stuff is from the powdery parts of the vermiculite, so two things happening. She used to be on a coarser vermiculite, and when I cleaned the enclosure a few months ago I had to use fine because there was no coarse available. I sometimes mix it wither other substrates and moss. I might do that again and see if it makes a difference. I don't think it is that though, I think it would have been picked up in the lab test. Can they leak urates (if it is urates?) form their behinds if there is a problem? [/QUOTE]
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