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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yeahhtrue" data-source="post: 122675" data-attributes="member: 25447"><p>Sorry to revive an old post, but did you (or anyone else) ever conclusively determine what this is? I just lost my G.Rosea to these exact symptoms. It molted, and not long afterwards I noticed the weird behavior just like the video. A week after the molt I tried feeding but it refused the cricket, which is abnormal for this particular spider. I waited another week and tried again, and this time I was able to coax the spider to eat a cricket. I had hoped that this would help the problem, but unfortunately a day later I found him dead. Would really like to know what this is and what causes it. My rosie was my first and favorite T <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>