I've searched everywhere that I possibly can, and I still have no answers as to what might be wrong with my G. Rosea.
About a week and a half to two weeks ago, when she was trying to climb up the glass of her enclosure, I noticed two white spots below the opening of her mouth and right above her labia. I pulled her out, worried it was a fungal infection of some sort, and tried to gently wipe at it with a moist Q-Tip. It came off easily, mostly. There was no recurrance intil last night, when I saw them again; but worse. It was the same white stuff, but it was sort of growing outwards weirdly. It doesn't look like a fungus or mold, no spores- it actually looks like lime deposit, but that doesn't make any sense to me. I also scraped that off, and kept a sample of it on the Q-Tip. I was planning on taking it to an Entomology proffessor at a college or university, but there are none in my state that offer any courses on veterinarian entomology. I don't want to take her to a vet, as I know that they will likely not have anyone there who is qualified to treat arachnids.
I bought her as an adult and have had her for a few months, with no molt yet. It's going into Autumn, so she's slowing down a bit as well. She has also been fasting for a few weeks, however when I put a cricket in with her she attacks it like she's hungry before dropping it and leaving it paralyzed and dying. This is the first Rosie I've ever had, so I'm getting to the point where I'm wondering if any of this behavior is normal (I at first thought she was just slowing down for seasonal change, but now I'm not so sure.) I'm hoping that her behavior is because she is close to entering a molt or some such, but I would really like to know what the white stuff is before it has any chance of harming her. Does anyone have any ideas?
About a week and a half to two weeks ago, when she was trying to climb up the glass of her enclosure, I noticed two white spots below the opening of her mouth and right above her labia. I pulled her out, worried it was a fungal infection of some sort, and tried to gently wipe at it with a moist Q-Tip. It came off easily, mostly. There was no recurrance intil last night, when I saw them again; but worse. It was the same white stuff, but it was sort of growing outwards weirdly. It doesn't look like a fungus or mold, no spores- it actually looks like lime deposit, but that doesn't make any sense to me. I also scraped that off, and kept a sample of it on the Q-Tip. I was planning on taking it to an Entomology proffessor at a college or university, but there are none in my state that offer any courses on veterinarian entomology. I don't want to take her to a vet, as I know that they will likely not have anyone there who is qualified to treat arachnids.
I bought her as an adult and have had her for a few months, with no molt yet. It's going into Autumn, so she's slowing down a bit as well. She has also been fasting for a few weeks, however when I put a cricket in with her she attacks it like she's hungry before dropping it and leaving it paralyzed and dying. This is the first Rosie I've ever had, so I'm getting to the point where I'm wondering if any of this behavior is normal (I at first thought she was just slowing down for seasonal change, but now I'm not so sure.) I'm hoping that her behavior is because she is close to entering a molt or some such, but I would really like to know what the white stuff is before it has any chance of harming her. Does anyone have any ideas?