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Last year I purchased this Cyriopagopus thorelli sub-adult female, who matured some months after. She bred with a male (Thanks Joe P.!), and produced an eggsac. The eggsac hatched and provided many strong spiderlings. This was the 3rd ever eggsac in the US, perhaps world-wide.
This particular female, last month, developed a hernia (so I thought), a whitish lump, on the right side of her abdomen. It grew as time went on. Just last week the lump ruptured. She was alive when I found her, but lost her fire and hate for me. She moved slowly, probably painfully.
My decision was to euthanize her. After, she still remains in my collection. I placed her in a jar with Isopropyl alcohol. Minutes later, where the rupture was, these tiny worms (1/32" in length) exited her rupture, trying to escape the burning alcohol.
This is the first pic I took of her.
john
This particular female, last month, developed a hernia (so I thought), a whitish lump, on the right side of her abdomen. It grew as time went on. Just last week the lump ruptured. She was alive when I found her, but lost her fire and hate for me. She moved slowly, probably painfully.
My decision was to euthanize her. After, she still remains in my collection. I placed her in a jar with Isopropyl alcohol. Minutes later, where the rupture was, these tiny worms (1/32" in length) exited her rupture, trying to escape the burning alcohol.
This is the first pic I took of her.
john