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Message: <blockquote data-quote="daphnep" data-source="post: 39185" data-attributes="member: 3527">Hi, D!  I should elaborate on what I see on her, regarding mites, or how I have looked.  Maybe this will help.  I don't know.  At this point, yes, I'm worrying.   It's so hard not to when you love a pet.  I am legally blind without my contacts or glasses.  In fact, I have to buy expensive, triple-ground lenses for my glasses, or else I'd have those Jerry Lewis, coke-bottled things.  This is good now, because I am a cranky, rickety 45 years old, and this is the age when people start needing bifocals.  I do not, however, because of the extreme myopia, and when I take off my glasses I can see things very well super close up.  I have put Isabella in a plastic clear cage and examined her truly close up, and I see nothing that looks like mites.  What I thought were mites on the back of her abdomen was what I now know is the condition where she might be urticating or is just normal mottling.  I swear, I cannot see a single mite, even super up close.  The ones I see in Google images can be seen with the naked eye; are there microscopic ones that she could be carrying?I have never heard of Diskinetic Syndrome.  When I saw some of the videos, I about cried.  Oh my God, that's awful.  No, she's not like that, but she is irritated.  It's like she is extra-sensitive now.  I have been contemplating moving her cage to a very quiet room, one that does not get so much action.  And worst, after reading this page,<a href="https://tomsbigspiders.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/dks-dyskinetic-syndrome-in-tarantulas/" target="_blank">https://tomsbigspiders.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/dks-dyskinetic-syndrome-in-tarantulas/</a>I think that you might be right on the syndrome.  This person explains exactly what is happening to Isabella:  his spider molted fine, ate a meal, and then developed the same symptoms Isabella is showing.  If this is the case, then I have to up the humidity and hope for the best; it does not appear that the best comes for these tarantulas, though.</blockquote>

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