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<blockquote data-quote="Ceratogyrus" data-source="post: 24387" data-attributes="member: 371"><p>It happens sometimes. Lost my big adult female P.spec Lowland the other day. She is on a yearly moult cycle, moulted in December successfully and then attempted another moult in January for some or other reason and passed away stuck in the moult.</p><p>I love my spiders, but everyone has losses (Whether it be your fault or something that is out of your hands), so I have kinda accepted that when they die and the conditions are acceptable I don't lose too much sleep over it.</p><p>I know we have these in artificial conditions, but you need to consider that in the wild out of a sac of 2000 A.geniculata that hatch from a sac, only a male and female need to survive to continue the species (Along with maybe a few males that get eaten before mating). So lets call it 10/2000 babies need to make it to adulthood. That's a percentage of 0.5%</p><p>Sometimes spiders just die for "no reason".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ceratogyrus, post: 24387, member: 371"] It happens sometimes. Lost my big adult female P.spec Lowland the other day. She is on a yearly moult cycle, moulted in December successfully and then attempted another moult in January for some or other reason and passed away stuck in the moult. I love my spiders, but everyone has losses (Whether it be your fault or something that is out of your hands), so I have kinda accepted that when they die and the conditions are acceptable I don't lose too much sleep over it. I know we have these in artificial conditions, but you need to consider that in the wild out of a sac of 2000 A.geniculata that hatch from a sac, only a male and female need to survive to continue the species (Along with maybe a few males that get eaten before mating). So lets call it 10/2000 babies need to make it to adulthood. That's a percentage of 0.5% Sometimes spiders just die for "no reason". [/QUOTE]
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