Dead C.schioedtei

[abarth]

Another one dead. My 3+ inch female Cyriopagopus schioedtei died on me. Suppose it happened just a few of days ago since it hadn't started smelling bad until today. She's never been out and about much, so I wasn't sure what to think, being that I hadn't seen her in a couple of weeks, but since I've had to take out again all the crickets I've tried to feed her the last week or so, I started to stick my nose in and smell, but it only smelled of wood and soil until today.
So I took out her corkbark to get access to her hide and there she was, dead. Can't think of any obvious reason for this to happend. She molted successfully just over a month ago, and have been eating since then. When I found her she just sat flat in her hide, wich was on the bottom of the cagefloor, under the bark, with a cricket wich was completely surrounded in web infront of her. She had not been eaten on by any cricket.

Suppose this things happend from time to time, but I can't help getting a bit depressed. And this one was for me one of the more beatiful species.
So, I have to ask a few questions.
With slings it's often a big risk they just die before they are "safe" but I don't know if there are any rule of thumb on at wich age they can be regarded "safe", if any?
Was the C.schioedtei to regarded as "safe" at this size? I would have guessed so, but I just have to ask.
Is this species more likely to be exposed to paracites like I've heard Pokies are (correct me if I'm wrong on that one)?

 

[Selenops]

Another one dead. My 3+ inch female Cyriopagopus schioedtei died on me. Suppose it happened just a few of days ago since it hadn't started smelling bad until today. She's never been out and about much, so I wasn't sure what to think, being that I hadn't seen her in a couple of weeks, but since I've had to take out again all the crickets I've tried to feed her the last week or so, I started to stick my nose in and smell, but it only smelled of wood and soil until today.
So I took out her corkbark to get access to her hide and there she was, dead. Can't think of any obvious reason for this to happend. She molted successfully just over a month ago, and have been eating since then. When I found her she just sat flat in her hide, wich was on the bottom of the cagefloor, under the bark, with a cricket wich was completely surrounded in web infront of her. She had not been eaten on by any cricket.

Suppose this things happend from time to time, but I can't help getting a bit depressed. And this one was for me one of the more beatiful species.
So, I have to ask a few questions.
With slings it's often a big risk they just die before they are "safe" but I don't know if there are any rule of thumb on at wich age they can be regarded "safe", if any?
Was the C.schioedtei to regarded as "safe" at this size? I would have guessed so, but I just have to ask.
Is this species more likely to be exposed to paracites like I've heard Pokies are (correct me if I'm wrong on that one)?

I haven't cared for this species yet but a related had died on me soon after I changed the substrate and it was not nearly as moist. To this day I don't where or at what point my husbandry took a fatal turn. Was it the substrate or a failed molt, I don't know. So hopefully someone can unravel this mystery for me too.

 

[beetleman]

i had a female about a year ago raised from a sling,she was almost adult,she was doing great and all,then out of nowhere she was dead down in her burrow w/eggsac! ofcourse not fertile,it was extremely hot that summer so i'm thinking that was it i really don't know all of my other ts were fine,how i found her dead was the smell coming from her container,i got another female months ago(juvie)which is doing fine,but i always look in her container just to make sure,so again it could be alot of things why they die,sorry for your loss,you know you have to get another,your right they are very beautiful.

 

[dianedfisher]

I can't offer a cause, but I can extend my sympathy to you. I've always hoped that buying T's a little larger (2-3") would keep this type of thing from happening so often, but i lost a beautiful T. purpurea just weeks after I purchased it, so I know it can happen. Sorry for your loss. Di