Little white spot on sling's abdomen

[Braulio Paz]

Hello everyone.

I need some help here.

Today I was checking on my slings - as I usually do every 4-5 days- and I noticed this white spot at the bottom of one of my G Pulchra slings. I tried wiping it off hoping it was poop, but it wasn't. So I applied a little bit of iodopovidone and she was super cooperative, she even pointed her abdomen up so I could reach the spot with a Q tip.

Is there anything I should worry about? For how long should I apply iodopovidone there? Also, she hasn't eaten in about a month, but she doesn't seem to be in pre-molt either.

Any help and experience on the subject is very much appreciated.

 

[vancwa]

Stop using Iodopovidone. It can be an irritant to humans and could adversely affect your T through absorption so I would not risk it Could be a cyst.

 

[Braulio Paz]

Stop using Iodopovidone. It can be an irritant to humans and could adversely affect your T through absorption so I would not risk it Could be a cyst.

Thanks. What should I do then?

 

[moricollins]

Thanks. What should I do then?

Leave it be, hope for the best.... There's little (likely nothing) you can DO

 

[wesker12]

If I recall correctly, iodopovidone has been utilized for fungal infections in theraposidae;

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Check out page 33, subsection arachnids.

As for what it is, I can't say if it's a cyst or fungal infection or what but if we can't figure out what, best case scenario is leave it until you know more.

 

[Smotzer]

All you can likely do is just monitor it and be patient and see how it turns out.

 

[DaveM]

I have seen something like this post-molt, and it mostly went away / faded away after the next molt, and was completely gone the molt after that.
The shed molt showed a little, weird patch in the exoskeleton that had slight stiffness/thickening in the otherwise thin and extremely flexible abdomen cuticle. I don't know what it was other than an irregularity in the exoskeleton. My spider was somewhat portly, overfed a bit in current thinking, and I speculated that it might be the result of some abrasion, like a scar or a callus -- that was my guess, but I really don't know.

I found another thread here reporting a similar anomaly: https://arachnoboards.com/threads/white-spot-on-abdomen-post-molt.288315/

I think you should just leave it alone, take good care of your spider as usual, and that it will probably resolve itself in coming molts.

 

[wesker12]

Exactly as Dave said, beauty of these lil critters is their remarkable regenerative ability to molt out out of all sorts of issues!

 

[Braulio Paz]

Thank you all for your help. I won't put anything on that spot then and I'll be hoping for a molt soon.

If the spot gets bigger, I'll reach out to you again.

Thanks!!