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<blockquote data-quote="Jess S" data-source="post: 163744" data-attributes="member: 29302"><p>I have a B. Smithi sling ( yours has adult colours so not a sling anymore) and it's one of my worst eaters. Plus it also goes on fasts of a couple of weeks at a time and more. It however, is the picture of health. Sizewise, your one looks healthy too so dont worry about it not eating!</p><p></p><p>The injured leg to me looks like a regenerated leg, meaning that a previous leg got injured and the new one grew back in its place. If the new one is injured, then as the Clown says it will generate another one. The new one will be skinnier than the rest but over a couple of moults, it'll grow until you can't tell a difference between it and the other 7.</p><p></p><p>Finally, you could do with a lot more substrate in the enclosure to prevent your smithi from falling and injuring itself. A rough guide is that you should leave room of no more than 1.5 of your T's dls (diagonal leg span) between the lid of the enclosure and the substrate. For example, if you have a 1" spider, then the distance of substrate to lid should be around 1.5".</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jess S, post: 163744, member: 29302"] I have a B. Smithi sling ( yours has adult colours so not a sling anymore) and it's one of my worst eaters. Plus it also goes on fasts of a couple of weeks at a time and more. It however, is the picture of health. Sizewise, your one looks healthy too so dont worry about it not eating! The injured leg to me looks like a regenerated leg, meaning that a previous leg got injured and the new one grew back in its place. If the new one is injured, then as the Clown says it will generate another one. The new one will be skinnier than the rest but over a couple of moults, it'll grow until you can't tell a difference between it and the other 7. Finally, you could do with a lot more substrate in the enclosure to prevent your smithi from falling and injuring itself. A rough guide is that you should leave room of no more than 1.5 of your T's dls (diagonal leg span) between the lid of the enclosure and the substrate. For example, if you have a 1" spider, then the distance of substrate to lid should be around 1.5". Hope that helps a bit. [/QUOTE]
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