My mature chilean rose (unoriginally named "Rosie") turned on her side to moult exactly one week ago about wed 10pm. Thurs 530am checked on her and she was getting on nicely almost out of her moult. 8am she was still on her back stopped with part of her attached still (it wasnt' clear at that time that it was just her pedipalp - it looked like several legs were stuck too). 10pm thurs night she was still in exactly the same position looking to be struggling to do anything, flinching her legs every once in a while. So we carefully took her out and cut away the cast gradually and put her back. I looked up in a few places that it was ok to do this is extreme cirumstances. I seemed like the right decision and she let us do it without complaint. When we put her back in she started trying to get the pedipalp off so we left her to it. She was doing this till about Saturday. She can't get it off and it looks like she might have damaged her pedipalp. She has been not moving much since then. She is sat holding her body lower to the ground than usual as if she is weak. The half off pedipalp cast is hanging underneath her body.
She isn't taking care of it herself so I feel some kind of intervention is necessary now. I don't see how she will be able to feed properly if the situation remains. Should we take her out again and try to pull the cast off?
What possibilities should we prepare ourselves for? Could her pedipalp come off or what?
I am inexperienced so I really need help here. We also have an A. Seemani but these are our first spiders and we have only had them only a couple of years so have witnessed about 3 moults in total ever.
I don't know if this is relevant but the pedipalp in question has been really limp and not functioned for about 6 months now and she hasn't moulted for about 22 months.
I really don't want to lose her. We love her very much and want her to be back to her usual happy self so any advice is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Elly
She isn't taking care of it herself so I feel some kind of intervention is necessary now. I don't see how she will be able to feed properly if the situation remains. Should we take her out again and try to pull the cast off?
What possibilities should we prepare ourselves for? Could her pedipalp come off or what?
I am inexperienced so I really need help here. We also have an A. Seemani but these are our first spiders and we have only had them only a couple of years so have witnessed about 3 moults in total ever.
I don't know if this is relevant but the pedipalp in question has been really limp and not functioned for about 6 months now and she hasn't moulted for about 22 months.
I really don't want to lose her. We love her very much and want her to be back to her usual happy self so any advice is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Elly
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