BugPrince
Arachnopeon
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- Jan 10, 2015
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It makes me kind of sad that my first ever post on this site is a request for help because my spider is sick, but here goes :/
About a week ago, after a routine change of water in all the spider homes, I noticed (a couple hours after the fresh water was put in) strange little THINGS??? in the redknee's water dish. They are very very small (pics included for size reference). My boyfriend suggested they may be nematodes, but although these are very small they seem to be too big to be nematodes? I did nothing about it right that second because nothing was visible around the spiders mouth when inspected, but today I found them again. This time, when inspected, his mouth had a very hard THING ??? sticking out of it (may very well have just been a bit of food stuck in there, it took a little tug to get out but it was sticking straight out from between his chelicerae and all around it/underneath it ((still between the chelicerae)) ) were these little wormy things!!
In trying to remove some of them gently from his mouth (some were buried too far in the chelicerae for me to feel comfortable taking them out) I discovered they are HARD--I expected them to be soft wormy things, but they are hard as a rock. And they don't move. He doesn't seem to be showing other telltale signs of having nematodes (wet around the mouth, permanently raised pedipalps, etc) and these seem too big? WHAT ARE THESE and is this a huge scary deal
Pictures:
http://www.ezimba.com/work/150428C/ezimba19043729598800.jpg
http://www.ezimba.com/work/150428C/ezimba19043738074600.jpg
http://www.ezimba.com/work/150428C/ezimba19043747200000.jpg
(these are the clearest photos I got, but if more need to be taken/more information is need let me know)
About a week ago, after a routine change of water in all the spider homes, I noticed (a couple hours after the fresh water was put in) strange little THINGS??? in the redknee's water dish. They are very very small (pics included for size reference). My boyfriend suggested they may be nematodes, but although these are very small they seem to be too big to be nematodes? I did nothing about it right that second because nothing was visible around the spiders mouth when inspected, but today I found them again. This time, when inspected, his mouth had a very hard THING ??? sticking out of it (may very well have just been a bit of food stuck in there, it took a little tug to get out but it was sticking straight out from between his chelicerae and all around it/underneath it ((still between the chelicerae)) ) were these little wormy things!!
In trying to remove some of them gently from his mouth (some were buried too far in the chelicerae for me to feel comfortable taking them out) I discovered they are HARD--I expected them to be soft wormy things, but they are hard as a rock. And they don't move. He doesn't seem to be showing other telltale signs of having nematodes (wet around the mouth, permanently raised pedipalps, etc) and these seem too big? WHAT ARE THESE and is this a huge scary deal
Pictures:
http://www.ezimba.com/work/150428C/ezimba19043729598800.jpg
http://www.ezimba.com/work/150428C/ezimba19043738074600.jpg
http://www.ezimba.com/work/150428C/ezimba19043747200000.jpg
(these are the clearest photos I got, but if more need to be taken/more information is need let me know)