please help on bad spideling help

[sagar jason nigam]

My spiderling moulted today, must have been during afternoon when i was out, hes since been on his legs this evening but still has the exoskeleton of his abdomen stuck to him. It seems as though to look at him the whole of the abdomen is stuck to him, but the last little bit that came off seems to suggest that it came from under him. Has this happened to anyone else before?
On another forum they suggested i just leave the sling to harden and wait till feeds or something.
This was a pretty expensive T.apophysis spiderling so i would appriciate some knowledgable advice.

Looks as though i wont get any till the end of tonight anyway. There was a mangled locust in there from night before when i came back, but it was well feed and with water so doubt it irritated much.

Thanks

p.s. You can see from the pic the abdomen is completely black, does this happen with slings sometimes?

[Peter Lacey]

Sometimes moults stick to the new body or don't quite detach themselves. I'd suggest raising the humidity and try dropping a few drops of water directly onto the moult

[wayne balcombe]

The pictures aren't very clear but the abdomen looks normal to me.

As long as the piece of old skin is not stuck over the book lungs you shouldn't have a problem.

Try what Pete has already suggested though i would probably not drop water on a spiderling of that size, if the bit of old skin that is stuck is causing the spider a problem or irritating it then it will probably remove it itself so keep the humidity up to stop it completely drying out.

[Lee Corless]

I had the same problem with one of Lp slings, half the abdomen did not detatch, and was stuck and it looked like she had a big sail on her back, it seemed to really bother my sling, finding it hard to walk about. I tried raising the humidity but the sling just refused to eat, and died about 5 weeks later, But my sling did look in a worse way than yours( what I can make out on the pics)... So I would still suggest the high humidity is the way to go.

[sagar jason nigam]

Thanks alot for all the help. It seems as though the slings doing fine, under the abdomen what looks like the book lungs and the spinnerets are a translucent colour, and the other bit of the shed skin i found looks as though it could go under the ab. I just thought it hadnt shed its skin because after it moulted the top of the abdomen was jet black compared to the rest of the body, and it seemed a bit small and tight to what it should have been. But i got it to eat about 35hrs later on a cricket with a crushed head and that seemed to expand the abdomen a bit. What temp do you reckon i should keep a sling from tropical climate at? I thnk it said in the book high 80f to low 90f, so i may buy an additional heater.