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Message: <blockquote data-quote="christine henderson" data-source="post: 774" data-attributes="member: 351"><p>I'm assuming the damage was done whilst moulting when the fangs were still soft. She was still in moult 15 hours after turning on her back. struggling and growing weaker. I managed to help with some tweezers and at first she seemed ok. Introduced a cricket about 10 days later when her fangs had turned black but it just hung from her mouth still alive. She has been living on cricket stomach contents and wax worms for the last year due to her inability to inject. Her abdomen has shrank significantly and I really thought I was going to lose her eventually. Amazingly due to her immersing her fangs in the water bowl over a period of weeks for hours at a time, they are now straight. She is now in a feeding frenzy and eating whole dissolved crickets. Hopefully soon I will see an improvement in the size of her abdomen.</p></blockquote><p></p>