Is my wolf spider impacted? Her abdomen keeps growing + she "wore" something on her spinnerets

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Just wanted to update this thread, she is now back to normal thank goodness, and seems to be doing well! Now that she slimmed down I fed her and she was ravenous. All is well again it seems!

Great news! Did it Just naturally get better did you have to remove the issue ?

 

[Brewser]

She Wolf Spider is back in the Hunt

 

[spoper]

Really hard to say what really helped, or what caused it. I moved her to a smaller enclosure and put a bigger flatter water bowl in there. It takes up about 1/3 of the enclosure and the place has a lot of verticality which she seems to prefer. In contrast, the previous enclosure is pretty large for a tiny spider like her, I'd say the same waterbowl would take up about 1/20th or even 1/25th of the area. The larger enclosure now houses a very large wolf spider with 2+ in legspan.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Really hard to say what really helped, or what caused it. I moved her to a smaller enclosure and put a bigger flatter water bowl in there. It takes up about 1/3 of the enclosure and the place has a lot of verticality which she seems to prefer. In contrast, the previous enclosure is pretty large for a tiny spider like her, I'd say the same waterbowl would take up about 1/20th or even 1/25th of the area. The larger enclosure now houses a very large wolf spider with 2+ in legspan.

Perhaps she swam around in the water or increasing humidity fixed it ? I’ve never seen this happen before to any of my spiders . Ts right now but I’ve kept various little true spiders I’ve captured in the past .