Leaking white fluid before a moult normal?

[chris collins]

I have a four year old Lasiodora Parahybana. It has been 13 months since the last moult. It got a beige bare patch. This became black after about a week, the new hairs growing in under the exoskeleton about to be shed. Today I noticed a white fluid which seems to have come out of a small hole at the back of the rump. About 1 square cm puddle. Is this a normal part of pre-moult?

I noticed my Chilean Rose ejecting a white/rose coloured fluid from the same sort of hole at the back of the rump. It put this fluid into a corner. That seemed like a natural excretion. The rose has put web down as if for a moult. It has no bare patches.

I don't think the Lasiodora fell. It has been sluggish, as part of premolt, for the last three weeks at least, and not eating. It does not look at all ill. Thanks.

[Neil Ashby]

i think it is just its poo

[Robert Farmer]

i think it is just its poo

I second that motion!

[chris collins]

I've had this Lasiodora for two years and, if it's poo, this white goo, then what is this, it's yearly poo? I've seen what looked like, not quite web, but the same whitewash paint looking stuff put against the glass. That's where the Chilean Rose deposited its 'poo'. So I guess it's poo.

The reason I ask is because this 'pooing' is a rare occurence, and 'hemolymph', a tarantula's blood, is supposedly white.

I'm concerned about its upcoming moult. If it were hemolyph from a rupture then it would bleed to death at the moult.

[Colin D Wilson]

Haemolymph is quite thick and tinted blue (due to a copper complex that has an affinity with, and reacts with oxygen)

[chris collins]

Thanks very much, poo it is.