Veterinary Surgery for Stuck Molt

[Gevo]

I’m lucky to live in a city with a veterinary clinic that specializes in reptiles and amphibians, and they welcome tarantula patients too. I haven’t had to use them, but I follow them and recently saw this.

I’ll post image text below for those who can’t see the photos, but I thought this would be of interest to this community.




[Image 1: Meet Freya. This little lady came to us with a stuck molt! With some microsurgical tools, small movements and a ton of patience Dr. Daren and his team were able to get her molt off, seal her wounds and replace her fluid loss by injecting her directly into the heart all under anesthesia. We are really happy to hear she is recovering well, has regained energy and is eating! Wishing you a speedy recovery, Freya!]

[Image 2, in response to someone asking what she was injected with: we used lactated ringers, and gave it intracardiac]

 

[viper69]

Very cool- importantly these are vets
Curious how much of the molt was on, where, and where in the cycle. Important details to learn.

Curious to know what they used to seal wounds.

Next question would be if someone has ever brought them one with those “cysts” we see so often.

Also surprised they only do exotics esp in Canada. Very cool!

 

[Gevo]

We actually have quite an extensive exotic pet community here, and this vet clinic always has a booth at our twice-annual reptile show and does a lot to support our local herptile education and rescue foundation.

There’s another show happening next weekend. If I go, I’ll stop at the booth to see if they can give me some more info, or I might email them and ask those questions. Whatever I find out, I’ll share here.

 

[Tbone192]

We actually have quite an extensive exotic pet community here, and this vet clinic always has a booth at our twice-annual reptile show and does a lot to support our local herptile education and rescue foundation.

There’s another show happening next weekend. If I go, I’ll stop at the booth to see if they can give me some more info, or I might email them and ask those questions. Whatever I find out, I’ll share here.

Glad to hear we have our priorities straight up here in Canuckistan.

 

[zsiciarz]

Next question would be if someone has ever brought them one with those “cysts” we see so often.

There's a research team here in Poland that looks into that. Even Volker von Wirth recently shared their call for help: https://www.facebook.com/permalink....oaPHTeUBJ1Ux64VXVosPBFRAXl&id=100064323450667

 

[viper69]

There's a research team here in Poland that looks into that. Even Wolker von Wirth recently shared their call for help: https://www.facebook.com/permalink....oaPHTeUBJ1Ux64VXVosPBFRAXl&id=100064323450667

This is great. Given they produce so many Ts in EU I’d expect that side to crack it first.

Interesting this is observed in Jumpers as well.


I’ve only had it once, and she survived. It took about 3-4 molts to go back to normal.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I’m lucky to live in a city with a veterinary clinic that specializes in reptiles and amphibians, and they welcome tarantula patients too. I haven’t had to use them, but I follow them and recently saw this.

I’ll post image text below for those who can’t see the photos, but I thought this would be of interest to this community.

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[Image 1: Meet Freya. This little lady came to us with a stuck molt! With some microsurgical tools, small movements and a ton of patience Dr. Daren and his team were able to get her molt off, seal her wounds and replace her fluid loss by injecting her directly into the heart all under anesthesia. We are really happy to hear she is recovering well, has regained energy and is eating! Wishing you a speedy recovery, Freya!]

[Image 2, in response to someone asking what she was injected with: we used lactated ringers, and gave it intracardiac]

Wow did she survive in the long run ?? That’s crazy anyone was able to do this.