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<blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 126306" data-attributes="member: 26980"><p>Holy crap!! Yep, that's it. It was sort of on the glass in the front. He recognized the issue much earlier. I don't think most people pinch grab that one!! The swollen abdomen looks similar.</p><p></p><p>There wasn't any of the slightly blue stuff there however in his video.</p><p></p><p>The thing is that spider is arboreal, meaning contact with the substrate and mold would've been much more limited.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, he lost that spider as well I believe.</p><p></p><p>A week or two ago and once in a while I sneezed shortly after feeding the tarantulas including her. I'm allergic to pollen and so on. The top of the substrate was so dry that there was a slightly dusty appearance.</p><p></p><p>Those were probably clues to mold, which sadly I missed. It's understandable why she was spending more time outside and kept the burrows wide open!!</p><p></p><p>It's a shame because I was mulling over rehousing her ever since she became the same size as my Lasiodora Klugi when I first got her.</p><p></p><p>That what happens when you don't listen to your gut intuition!!</p><p></p><p>In that case, she spent most of her life, 3rd day onward into the 3 gallon tank. I just dropped the food through the hole in the skull and she ate just fine.</p><p></p><p>(At the time my fully grown scorpion was already in the 3 gallon and since l Klugi gets much l bigger then that she was in the 5 gallon. I switched them shortly thereafter even though the L Klugi had no problem eating in either enclosure. Today, both are in 5 gallon enclosures.)</p><p></p><p>You should've read what some folks said about cage size!! There's no doubt that this spider could've done the same thing. After all, I was just dropping things into the entrance of the burrow. She probably could've done fine there even at an inch in size.</p><p></p><p>As a last ditch effort, I did administer a diluted mixture of saline contact lense solution, which is non toxic and some juice together with distilled water before going to work tonight.</p><p></p><p>The chances of this working are a million to one.</p><p></p><p>I guess the next step is putting her into the freezer for an hour just to be sure and then destruction of the body?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whitelightning777, post: 126306, member: 26980"] Holy crap!! Yep, that's it. It was sort of on the glass in the front. He recognized the issue much earlier. I don't think most people pinch grab that one!! The swollen abdomen looks similar. There wasn't any of the slightly blue stuff there however in his video. The thing is that spider is arboreal, meaning contact with the substrate and mold would've been much more limited. Ultimately, he lost that spider as well I believe. A week or two ago and once in a while I sneezed shortly after feeding the tarantulas including her. I'm allergic to pollen and so on. The top of the substrate was so dry that there was a slightly dusty appearance. Those were probably clues to mold, which sadly I missed. It's understandable why she was spending more time outside and kept the burrows wide open!! It's a shame because I was mulling over rehousing her ever since she became the same size as my Lasiodora Klugi when I first got her. That what happens when you don't listen to your gut intuition!! In that case, she spent most of her life, 3rd day onward into the 3 gallon tank. I just dropped the food through the hole in the skull and she ate just fine. (At the time my fully grown scorpion was already in the 3 gallon and since l Klugi gets much l bigger then that she was in the 5 gallon. I switched them shortly thereafter even though the L Klugi had no problem eating in either enclosure. Today, both are in 5 gallon enclosures.) You should've read what some folks said about cage size!! There's no doubt that this spider could've done the same thing. After all, I was just dropping things into the entrance of the burrow. She probably could've done fine there even at an inch in size. As a last ditch effort, I did administer a diluted mixture of saline contact lense solution, which is non toxic and some juice together with distilled water before going to work tonight. The chances of this working are a million to one. I guess the next step is putting her into the freezer for an hour just to be sure and then destruction of the body? [/QUOTE]
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