C.marshalli ventral lesion (?)

[Hatr3d]

I just opened the container of my Ceratogyrus marshalli female and got a threat posture as always, but something's wrong this time: around the epigynal plate you'll see something that looks like a prolapse, the surrounding setae are wet as well.
I've never experienced something like this in many years, she didn't have this yesterday and since then she hasn't done something exceptional; the enclosure has no decorations that could have caused it, she's not acting differently than usual and she molted a couple weeks ago, so if it's really a prolapse it wasn't caused by a molt problem. Any ideas?

 

[BrynWilliams]

hard to say really, if she's cooperative ( i know not usual from this species ) and you could get her in a glass container and you could get some different angles on it that might help diagnose the issue.

 

[KoriTamashii]

Just from that picture, that doesn't look good... Hoping someone else chimes in with more experience... Though I'd say you should get her off the substrate, I don't think you'd want any to get into that wound.

 

[ZergFront]

Yikes, that made my veins feel kind of weird... I hope she can fix it herself somehow. Did you pair her with a male? :?

I'd second getting it off the substrate. Could contaminate the wound. Other than that, I really don't know what else I could suggest. Poor baby...

 

[Abby]

Ohh poor girl.
Maybe you can use Hobo's method to move tarantulas, and put her in a plastic ziploc bag so you can give her a better look.
I use a plastic ziploc bag to examine my slings but none of them are her size.

Good luck with her.