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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuzzball79" data-source="post: 64453" data-attributes="member: 3190">I've lost 2 (well 2nd one was nearly DOA and a freebie).My P. Metallica sling hit the hardest out of the 2. It seemed fine until after its last molt. I tried everything to keep it alive, but it just wasted away. It was a bit of a runt, never a great eater and never grew much with each molt. Maybe it just had been doomed? Apart from it obviously not having been a cheap spider, I hate seeing any of my animals suffer. I think it really hit home when my husband asked what I was going to do with the body, that's when the tears came. It was buried in one of my permanent flower pots. The second was a freebie B. Smithi sling, absolutely tiny. It looked like it was DOA, almost fully curled up. It perked up a bit after being put in its pot, but was dead the next morning. From its colour I wonder whether it had just molted and maybe it was too early to be packed and sent (which would surprise me, because it was from a usually very good shop)?</blockquote>