Help for Newbie Please - Very Worried

[Mandy Clinch]

Well i'm glad i read this, i have been feeding locusts to Lola for ages. I guess i have just been lucky by the sounds of it. WIll be crickets from now on.

Any news Wendy, how is she doing now? x

[Wendy Munro]

She's a lot worse Three of her legs are folded up tight against her body and she's stopped using them. The others just flail at the ground and she is immobile. I'm giving it until next week but I think we might have to euthanase her

[Joanna Pendleton]

Oh I'm sorry to hear this Wendy, how awful. Poor girl. Please keep us updated x

[Mandy Clinch]

Oh Wendy....i'm sorry. Does she not walk or move around at all?

[Lee Corless]

So sorry to hear that..... I think it's safe to say, we all hope there is a good outcome to this.....

[Wendy Munro]

No - she just flails in the substrates but she doesn't go anywhere at all. Just churns up the substrate around her a bit, and then subsides. It's terrible to see..... she panics whenever she senses anything at all, but can't do anything except waggle her legs around.

[Christopher Smallman]

Well you know you have done everything you can for her.

Lets hope she makes a recovery but it doesnt look good

Chris.

[wayne balcombe]

I've never experienced this in any of my own collection but i've had friends who have and i've seen it with thiers.

I've known of spiders that have moulted out and been fine afterwards and we are all keeping our fingers crossed for you and gussie.

I've noticed a bit of a pattern with cases of "DKS" they all seem to occur strait after a moult, i've also heard that excessive Fluride levels in tap water may be a cause.