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Heya, folks.
This evening I noticed an odd spot on the side of my B. Smithi's abdomen.
It molted a few days ago, and did not have the spot previously.
I've had it about a month, it'd been eating well until roughly two weeks ago preparing for the molt.
I have not fed it since the molt, I generally wait a week to ten days.
This is not something I've come across before, so I'm hoping to have some light shed on the situation.
The substrate is a little damp as of now, I raised the humidity a bit when I noticed it going into premolt.
It's typically dry, with a water dish available.
I don't believe this is fungus or mold.
It doesn't appear raised, so I'm doubting it's a cyst. It's got hair growing on it, and doesn't look misshapen or deformed. The old molt was mostly destroyed and I didn't think to check it over for any internal lumps, but I can say for certain that the discoloration wasn't there before the molt.
In my care it's not suffered a fall or other injury, though I bought it from a local store so I can't really verify something couldn't have happened to it while there.
My first guess was that it was an old injury healing out after molting, but I really have no idea.
My second guess was something to do with pigmentation, but since it wasn't there previously, it's likely not the case.
Anyone have experience with this?
This evening I noticed an odd spot on the side of my B. Smithi's abdomen.
It molted a few days ago, and did not have the spot previously.
I've had it about a month, it'd been eating well until roughly two weeks ago preparing for the molt.
I have not fed it since the molt, I generally wait a week to ten days.
This is not something I've come across before, so I'm hoping to have some light shed on the situation.
The substrate is a little damp as of now, I raised the humidity a bit when I noticed it going into premolt.
It's typically dry, with a water dish available.
I don't believe this is fungus or mold.
It doesn't appear raised, so I'm doubting it's a cyst. It's got hair growing on it, and doesn't look misshapen or deformed. The old molt was mostly destroyed and I didn't think to check it over for any internal lumps, but I can say for certain that the discoloration wasn't there before the molt.
In my care it's not suffered a fall or other injury, though I bought it from a local store so I can't really verify something couldn't have happened to it while there.
My first guess was that it was an old injury healing out after molting, but I really have no idea.
My second guess was something to do with pigmentation, but since it wasn't there previously, it's likely not the case.
Anyone have experience with this?