shedua
Arachnopeon
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- Aug 26, 2020
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Hello, I have a female phiddipus regius jumping spider I've been keeping who has recently started acting a bit weird. She won't eat any food I offer her, she might attack it but won't latch on and often will just run away or avoid it. Her abdomen however has stayed fat and round and hasn't shriveled or anything (although it kinda looked a little deformed the other day, almost like a bean shape). I got worried that maybe she has some sort of constipation, so I wanted to take her out of her enclosure and look at her to see if I could see any abnormalities. However when I brought a paint brush near her to try and coax her out like I often do, she got very defensive, threat posing at it and showing her fangs, which she never does. I know that she isn't in premolt because she is an adult, she recently laid an infertile egg sac a month or so ago. I'm not sure if she's about to lay another one because she hasn't built any big nest and has still been leaving and wandering the enclosure. She also hasn't slowed down at all which she did originally when she laid the first one. Has anyone else had similar defensive/not eating issues with their regal jumping spiders and should I be worried about constipation or fecal blockage? Thanks