If they are mites, and they probably are they could wery well be dangerous to your T. Their tiny molts can clog the book lungs and infestation of the leg joints. Their feces can irritate the mouth and book lungs as well.
The first thing you should do is to take the spider out of the cage and sterilize all decorations well and clean the whole cage with a chlorine mix. Make wery sure that you rinse the cage EXTREMELY well untill there is no smell of chlorine left. It's better to rinse to much than to little.
Change the substrate and keep the whole enclosure dry the following days. If it's not a desert-living spider you should bring the humidity up in a few days.
The ordeal of getting the mites of the spider itself i will have to leave to some one else to explain. I don't have enough experience of this. I have only taken care of mites on my snakes.
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