E. pachypus leg is messed up

[Brianhogs]

I noticed yesterday that my E. pachypus's leg was not moving when she walked. She basically just drags it around, but if I touch it, it will extend out or curls under her body. Im suprised that she hasn't removed it.

Oh and if it helps, its her right rear leg.

Can I do anything to help?

 

[clearlysaid]

I had this happen to an H lividum and H gigas once before... in both cases they threw it themselves, though. I would say you could help her throw it by, uh, pulling it off, haha... but I would think if it was bothering her so much she would do it herself.

Edit... I also had a male G rosea that his back leg didn't work right, either... bought him like that so I dunno what happened but he never threw it and I left it alone. When he went to molt, though, the leg didn't come out of the molt so he ended up throwing it then.

 

[fartkowski]

Yeh she will drop it herself.
I also had an H gigas that did that.
Do you see it leaking from anywhere?

 

[Brianhogs]

No, but im pretty sure that she did on her abdomen at some point. I was looking at her one day and it looked like she had lost a lot of weight. I thought she was going to die. But that was about a month ago and she has been doing fine until now.

I moved the leg around to see if it got cut or wounded but really I couldn't see anything wrong with her.

 

[fartkowski]

If you don't see any leaking, I would leave it alone.
She knows what to do.

 

[crpy]

That why substrate hight is important, did she break it by climbing.