That is very exciting! Sounds like a very fun job. It is a double-edged sword as you say- we can keep Ts here where we don't really have all that many and even fewer who are studying them professionally. But you can work closely with them in a research setting, but not able to keep them at home.
Maybe someday you can shed some light on the assorted mysterious problems we encounter with our pet tarantulas. They are generally trouble free pets as a whole, but then you have the threads you are reading like this one where we can't even tell for sure if it is a bump, lesion, scratch from furniture, who even knows. It's one of the most exciting and yet frustrating parts of keeping Ts- always a chance we make discoveries through our collective experiences but no good way to prove any of it yet.
OP- have you noticed any changes in the conformation, texture or color of this spot so far? That would certainly help to rule out active problems versus something static or repairing and thereby a number of potential problems falling into one or the other category.
