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Advice please - it looks like a bad moult - Update

Enn49

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I'm sad to say Peanut passed away a few days ago.

I took these photos to try to work out what went wrong with the moult
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The front leg is bent up and appears to be stuck to the mess around the mouth
 

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Is that a leg or a pedipalp? It looks like the palp didn't come all the way out or something, but that's just a big tarantula pretzel either way...
 

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Is that a leg or a pedipalp? It looks like the palp didn't come all the way out or something, but that's just a big tarantula pretzel either way...

It's definitely a leg. The ventral view doesn't look too bad but the dorsal view looks a horrendous mess and I'm surprised he lived as long as he did.
 
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