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Yes, Cody. Its all your fault ;) and boy are you in big trouble. Now you will have to put up with my ramblings. I will keep posting as long as everyone knows I am in this to share what I know and not get into any flames or debates. I just don't have the time. IME, nematodes invade the...

Bill, RIESM has standard forms, methods of diagnosis, treatments and results, etc that we used during our course of research. I will be happy to share these things and my experiences if a forum is started. We had several cases that involved white materials around the mouth that were not...

Years ago, one of my first cases was from England. We had a handful of others, one from Germany as well as another case from Germany that was not related to nematodes. Kerry Gowin, AS, BS, MS formerly RIESM You are most welcome. If this thread remains friendly and flameless I am happy to...

Hello, Here I am again, breaking my rule. RIESM started studies on normal bacteria of the T as the first order of business. How can you know what is abnormal if you don't know or understand the normal? Again, bacteria analysis was not my area but I know that Larry Boyd published a report or two...

I am breaking my rule and posting on an internet board. I need my head examined. First... THERE IS NO COMPLETE STUDY BY RIESM. RIESM was the first to do this kind of research and we were funding it with our own money to help the hobbyist. We could not sustain that and sadly it all ended due...

Very true. We also want to state that the treatments that we are using are unproven and dangerous even if you know exactly what you are doing. RIESM has always been here to help and we just relay what we know and to remind what is unproven and speculation. Thank you so much for your kind...

As you know, molting is the most dangerous time for a spider as anything can go wrong. Generally speaking the process will begin 4 to 5 days before molt. First is apolysis, the separation of the old cuticle from the hypodermal cells and then ecdysis the shedding of the entire exuvium. The...

Hello! Larry and I were discussing this case just this evening. The B. smithi that I treated with DMSO and cipro (nematode case 2003/2004)also molted promptly after treatment. I too thought her at deaths door before it happened. The only difference during the molt that I saw that was even...

Foelix (1996) states "spiders have a "closed" arterial system, no capillaries, and an open venous system." Very simply put the heart is dorsally located pushing hemolymph through the aorta passing through the pedicel into arteries located throughout the cephalothorax. Arteries also branch out...

No, sorry. That is really not my field. I am just a dissection jockey so to speak. I dissect many many many tarantulas. My findings are documented and then if needed passed on to other labs. Kerry RIESM

Agreed variation is key as previously mentioned. Could you inform me of the data behind the magnesium studies? Proven by whom? I am interested in knowing the duration of the study, etc. Thanks! Kerry RIESM

Hi! I just want to add that in the T. blondis (post molt problems/death) that I have dissected in the past all the deaths were attributed to problems with gastro diverticula or circulatory system failure or bleed out. IME attributed to feeding too early after a molt, growth rates or lack of...

Hi Cory! To my knowledge it is still unknown as to what it is or what causes it. It could be one disease with many faces or it could be many different diseases. No one knows for sure. In the few cases that I have dissected I have only seen some odd nerve cell damage but only in one case. Not...

Thanks for the thoughts! Best regards, Kerry RIESM

Hello again! I just talked to Larry RIESM co-founder. We have much good news! Finally Larry has "official" lab space/equipment donated by and inside a college complete with an Electron Scanning Microscope! Thank god. For those of you that know us you what a struggle we have had to get what we...

Hello! We are working on that very thing. So much has changed and so much has stayed the same. HA! Anyway, we (RIESM= Larry Boyd and I) have new been going through many growing pains yadda yadda...We will be posting everything we have accumulated so far on the AB soon. Really looking forward...

More than likely its probably what is commonly called the "enzyme mouth rinse." It is thought to be the same enzyme cocktail used to initiate pre-digestion. I believe this is just the current theory. Makes sense to me. If your T is eating then I doubt if its nematodes. Kerry RIESM

Hello! As I live in Texas and get up to OK horseback riding I occaisonally collect these guys or what I have been told are Aphonopelma wichitanum. I find them to be docile and usually loaded with personality. I have not had one flick hairs at me yet. As for a story, once we were resting the...

Keep a secure lid on top as they like to jump. They can find the smallest hole and out they come if they can fit through it. They dont necessarily always have to have live food. We got ours young and trained him to eat frozen fish too like silversides. This was many years ago and thats about...

Welcome back to the world o horses! We just got a Paint (stock) and another T'bred off the track. Busy busy. Good luck and congrats! Kerry