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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ross Mac" data-source="post: 25735" data-attributes="member: 2817">Hi, thanks for your replies.  No it was never dropped, we were told about that from the start.  But I didn't know about the gel :O((.  We were told to handle it a lot so it was used to us.  It never bit so I just assumed it was okay with that.  I own/love/show, etc my dogs so spiders were a new concept to me, we just thought we were doing it right.  I am inclined to think it would be the gel then as it did sit on it quite a lot.  I feel terrible now.  Also we were told as it lived in a house we didn't need a heated pad for under it's tank, is this right?  Julie</blockquote>