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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LeahThomas" data-source="post: 21503" data-attributes="member: 2195">I'm feeding her small crickets. I fed her a few days after I got her, she scarfed down three. She HAS eaten since then, but not as ravenously. Like I said above, she hasn't eaten since 1/19. However I was giving her a closer look, and I noticed her abdomen looked kind of funny. Not shriveled but kind of fuzzy. I got my small paintbrush and brushed her abdomen, and the weird looking fuzzies came off... Now I've started to worry about mold. I was googling picture of mold in a Ts container and now I'm wondering if what I thought was a "molting mat" (posted a pic above) was actually mold... I'm attaching a few pics, one of her (where you can see her abdomen) and another of the fuzzy stuff that come off of it. What do you guys think? I'm starting to get really nervous about this sling. Feeling like a pretty horrible mother at the moment <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>