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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tomoran" data-source="post: 30045" data-attributes="member: 1152">Awwww...I'm very sorry.If you could get pictures of your setup, that would be a great start. Folks might be able to see something that might have caused this. How large was the specimen? Had it been eating?I would advise always researching a species in the future, and be very careful with advise given by pet stores. That's not to say that there aren't some good, knowledgeable pet store folks out there, but many have NO idea what they are talking about, and some will try to sell you extra stuff that isn't appropriate for the animal (heat lamps, heat mats, wrong substrate, etc). Try to find information from folks who successfully keep the species, and shy away from basic care sheets, as many are generic or wrong. Boards like this are a great place to interact with folks and to learn from them. Just for future reference.If the abdomen is small and shriveled, it could have sustained an injury and bled out. Or, it could have been dehydrated (the clear fluid around the cage would lead one to suspect an injury), hence why it went to the water bowl. Also, and I hope this isn't the case, but unsuspecting people have been sold mature males on their last legs. Mature males basically wither away and die after their ultimate molt. I had it happen to me many years ago with an A. seemanni.These are all just theories. If you can post some pics of the enclosure and set up, folks can probably help you out.</blockquote>

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