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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarantula Trooper" data-source="post: 242572" data-attributes="member: 37740"><p>I believe I lost my Xenesthis sp. Blue female to impaction. The main question I have is does her anus  and spinnerets stay covered in crusty white poop? I noticed her  butt ,not long after a molt, started getting crusty white and staying that way. Suspected impaction so I stopped feeding her. It sometimes seemed to clear up a bit but would return. After a year passed without hardly a meal ( after noticing the crusties) she flipped on her back and thought she was about to molt. Come back in an hour she had flipped back over crawled in the corner and never moved from there again. I even got her in a catch cup and tried cleaning her bum up one time with a damp paint brush.  She still succumbed. I can only imagine what that must have been like. Broke my heart indeed to lose her this way. I wish you both the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>