Red fluid on my tarantulas leg???

[GothxExotic]

Hi everyone so I bought an Aphonopelma Seemanni 2 weeks back And she's been doing really well and I have just went to check on her enclosure and it looks like she has some red liquid around a joint on her leg. Ive attached a video below. I know tarantulas blood is clear but it looks concerning.

Her diet is dubia roaches which I believe are vegetarian??? But could they of bit her atall? She was last fed a week ago.

Could someone let me If this is a cause for concern
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[Gilligan]

Hello. Are you able to tell if it is liquid or just a regular joint segment? I can't see anything alarming in the video, could you post a picture and circle the issue?

 

[GothxExotic]

Hello. Are you able to tell if it is liquid or just a regular joint segment? I can't see anything alarming in the video, could you post a picture and circle the issue?

 

[Cmac2111]

Looks like a leg joint from the video/photo, nothing I can see that you'd need to be worried about. Dubias, like other roaches, are opportunistic omnivores that eat lots of things from plant material to flesh to waste etc. Whilst its possible for a Dubia to feast on a defenseless T (for example, a tarantula that is in the process of molting), I don't see any evidence of anything having bitten the T's leg joint, if that's what you were thinking.

 

[GothxExotic]

Another video also

Looks like a leg joint from the video/photo, nothing I can see that you'd need to be worried about. Dubias, like other roaches, are opportunistic omnivores that eat lots of things from plant material to flesh to waste etc. Whilst its possible for a Dubia to feast on a defenseless T (for example, a tarantula that is in the process of molting), I don't see any evidence of anything having bitten the T's leg joint, if that's what you were thinking.

That was my first thought! I've just never noticed it before. I've put up another video for you all to see

 

[viper69]

Joint

 

[Cmac2111]

That was my first thought! I've just never noticed it before. I've put up another video for you all to see

From the 2nd vid it seems as though the area around the joint is a little exposed, perhaps a very minor complication from molting or post molt (correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you said in a previous thread that she molted before you got her?). Even if so, something little like this isn't an issue... tarantulas are hardy creatures, she'll be a-ok. Not likely the work of a Dubia.

 

[Stylopidae]

I don't see anything to be worried about here, either.

Wounds in spiders bleed blue because they have hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin.

So if you're worried about it getting munched on by a feeder, it would look very different than this.

 

[Smotzer]

Nothing out of the ordinary from my view