Suspicious lump on Malaysian earth tiger

[Matthew Baines]

Just noticed during the feeding session that the malaysian earth tiger has a lump on its abdomen, and i'm a little bit worried.
Does anyone have any ideas?
(Apologies for the blurry picture but you get the general idea. It's pretty shy at the best of times and this was only way we could picture it)

[Clinton Hogben]

http://thebts.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=4221

Hi Mathew their was a thread a few days back about strange lump
could be an old injury etc

Have you just got the "T" could it be wild caught and have a parasite?
or have you had it a long while then its more than likely a small bruise / injury

I have never had one of these but Im sure someone can advise

Good luck with it

[Matthew Baines]

well its only a juvie and it is captive bred so hopefully that rules out parasites i hope , it did make a jump for freedom when i rehoused it a month ago might of hurt itself then , its eating like mad tho and is still running away when u slightly touch its jar so its not off colour , hope its nothing too serious cos its one of my favouites with its blue lets and pink and blue irridecent abdomen

[Colin D Wilson]

from the look of it, there's a possibility it may be an impact wound...almost like a bruise on humans.
I would keep an eye on it and even more so when moulting as this area may "stick"
Hopefully the lump will reduce by the time of the next moult and all will be well mate.

[Matthew Baines]

as this area may "stick"
Hopefully the lump will reduce by the time of the next moult and all will be well mate.

what should i do if it does stick? Is there anything i can do too help bareing in mind its 2 inch at the moment. Thanks for the calming of my nerves its one of my favorites and i eventually want too breed from this one too. I was reading all sorts about cancerous lumps last night and was getting myself into a right state.

[Zoltan Mihaly Lestyan]

Hmm... I had something similar on a female N. chromatus, but it was smaller and black colored. She molted about 4 weeks ago, and as I was observing her after the molt, I noticed some light colored fluid on the area where to "bruise" was. Not sure what it was... But as Colin said it might stick and in my case it indeed did. Now there's some substrate on the "wound", sort of like covering it up, like some sort of bandage. I am not sure if the spider intentionally "put" it there, but it's there and she seems to be fine after 4 weeks. I'm even thinking it may have stopped a possible leaking... What I plan to do with her is to have her on a strict one food item per two weeks diet, to avoid any rapid abdomen growth that might cause some problem with the wound. Hopefully yours will be okay too! You can but wait for the next molt and find out.

[Matthew Baines]

yeah i think i should cut the feeding down on this one it had 2 adult brown crickets last night , that's when i saw the lump , all my juveniles are eating 2 adult brown crickets a week, so i will just cut its feeding down too a bare minimum , for a juvenile what would you say that the least i should feed it is?

[Zoltan Mihaly Lestyan]

If you wanna cut back on feeding, I'd go with 1 cricket (or whatever similar food item) per two weeks with a juvenile too, maybe every 10 days. It may grow a bit slower, but hey what's better a dead spider or a slow growing but healthy spider?

[Matthew Baines]

ok will do that , i totally agree i dont want any of my juveniles too die especially my earth tigers

[Matthew Baines]

Just had a look at the juvie today and the lump doesn't look as big and there are hairs on it now so suspect it is going down