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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bast" data-source="post: 12810" data-attributes="member: 379">We lost our first spider <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />  Poor little Jolie (the smaller of the two versi's we got), she was eating fine and had no issues hunting and all seemed fine.  Then the other day she just wasn't climbing anymore, and despite eating regularly she just wasn't plumping up.   Went and checked on her the day before yesterday and her legs were curled under, put her in an icu (that was a little easier to check on her), checked on her today and she was all smelly <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />  Definitely not a husbandry issue, the other sling is thriving (webbing like crazy, eating well, and is looking close to it's 2nd moult with us), just think it was just not meant to be for our little one.Really sucks, Cade's gonna be heart broken when he finds out (Jolie was his).</blockquote>