I’ve had this sling for 12 days and from the beginning it’s been pretty slow moving, couldn’t climb right, but still a little bolty every now and then. I thought it was in pre molt so I’ve been keeping an eye on it and noticed a dry, almost crusty white spot on its mouth a couple days ago but today I noticed this milky white substance covering its mouth. wondering if anyone could help me figure out what it is?This is usually a sign of a nematode infection, but considering this is a spiderling I wouldn't know how it would have become infected. If you have additional tarantulas I would recommend separating the infected tarantula from the rest. Unfortunately, there is no known cure for a parasitic infection in tarantulas. The best you can do is just leave it as-is and hope it pulls through somehow.
I’ve had it separated from the others for the past few days, it’s slowed down quite a bit and seems to be ready to pass on unfortunately. I cleaned it’s mouth area as best I could and placed it in an ICU container. The container I purchased it in had these little black and white larvae looking things crawling around inside which I didn’t notice until after I got home and the vendor never mentioned anything wrong with the sling. I guess changing containers and switching the sub wasn’t enough.
Roughly an inch and a half
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Prey items, like crickets perhaps..