Awful Accident

[Sarlington]

Hello. I'm seeking help, I wanted to ask what do I do in case my tarantula is bleeding? The white-ish blood liquid (I don't know how to put it) Has been leaking from her leg for atleast 2 n half hour. The story is, while spraying her enclousure she bolted towards the enterance, and when I gently tried to poke her to move away my other hand dropped the glass lid onto her leg! I was terrified. I feel really guilty for this accident and I wanted to ask if putting cornstarch on the wound will do anything. The wounded leg is the first one from the left by the head beside the smaller ones near her mouth. I'm really sorry. I'm posting the image below of how it looks like, the image is bad quality. Also! The blood is transparent now for some reason, I'm worried she won't heal even though I think she will after a molt, please help.

 

[Arachnophobphile]

Hello. I'm seeking help, I wanted to ask what do I do in case my tarantula is bleeding? The white-ish blood liquid (I don't know how to put it) Has been leaking from her leg for atleast 2 n half hour. The story is, while spraying her enclousure she bolted towards the enterance, and when I gently tried to poke her to move away my other hand dropped the glass lid onto her leg! I was terrified. I feel really guilty for this accident and I wanted to ask if putting cornstarch on the wound will do anything. The wounded leg is the first one from the left by the head beside the smaller ones near her mouth. I'm really sorry. I'm posting the image below of how it looks like, the image is bad quality. Also! The blood is transparent now for some reason, I'm worried she won't heal even though I think she will after a molt, please help. View attachment 493335

Sorry to hear this

Tarantulas have the ability to close off circulation to a leg. Sometimes they will self amputate the leg which will regenerate over several molts.

For now you can apply cornstarch if you want. Better to be proactive

 

[BoyFromLA]

A few case scenarios here.

Eventually bleeding will stop

1. Tarantula will drop its injured leg
2. Tarantula will keep its injured leg, but will be disabled
3. Tarantula will keep its injured leg, but will be somewhat usable

But in any case scenarios, there’s nothing much you can do about it.

 

[cold blood]

Tarantula blood (called hemolymph), is in fact clear....luckily leg injuries rarely prove to be a problem as there is a valve at the base of the leg that closes off in cases of injury, preventing the t from bleeding to death.....the leg will die and the t will almost certainly self amputate at some point, and it will eventually grow back. Although you shouldn't have to, applying corn starch wouldn't hurt.

Now to the cause.....don't spray the enclosure, instead use a water dish and if you need to dampen substrate, pour water in....spraying not only freaks out many ts, but it provides little to nothing as it's the deeper parts of the substrate you want damp, not the surface, as that will evaporate in 20 min.

 

[Hardus nameous]

Make sure the spider has a full water dish; it'll most likely need to replenish fluids after a loss of hemolymph.

 

[viper69]

Don't spray- they are not plants