Help: My spider turn...gray

[hgrub]

update
she lock with male pastel again. So that means she's not gravid, right?

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[Brock Wagner]

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That has happened a few times before. Go over to Bob Clarks forum and do a search. I think it was late 2004 or 2005 he had a male Spider turn grey like yours. I believe that the Spider stayed that color for some time. I remember seeing it in Daytona and that Spider rocked. He was asking more money for it since it did that. If memory serves me correct it did change back to brown. Your female looks cool. Take some pictures and enjoy her while you can. She is not sick by the way.

Brock

[nixer]

looks almost like the axanthic spider only whiter that would be cool if it stayed that way

[muddoc]

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That has happened a few times before. Go over to Bob Clarks forum and do a search. I think it was late 2004 or 2005 he had a male Spider turn grey like yours. I believe that the Spider stayed that color for some time. I remember seeing it in Daytona and that Spider rocked. He was asking more money for it since it did that. If memory serves me correct it did change back to brown. Your female looks cool. Take some pictures and enjoy her while you can. She is not sick by the way.

Brock

Brock,
Thanks for posting that. I rememered seeing that Spider in Daytona as well in 2004, but I couldn't remember whose table it was on.

[Brock Wagner]

No problem Tim. I remember that male Spider well.

Brock

[MarkS]

Yeah, that was Bob Clark who had it happen to a spider, he used to have a pic of it on his web site, I don't know if it's still there or not. I've heard of this happening to old animals, young animals, males or females so I don't think it has anything to do with hormonal changes during breeding. I don't think anybody knows what actually happens. I've heard people say that the shed was preceded by a funny/greasy/waxy stool. Did this happen to you? They often change back to original color, but a few of the ones I've seen developed more melanin and eventually wound up darker.

I suspect that a lot of wild caught axanthics that didn't prove out started out this way.

[Peter Williams]

That is INSANE! pictures pictures pictures!

[BMorrison]

That is awesome! She was gorgeous before but wow... I don't think I've ever seen a color like that before... it's almost like a ghost... definitely submit some pics to BPOM!

[snakelady]

WOW! That's so awesome!

My pastel recently changed color before her shed...not lighter like you'd expect but a lot darker. Not anything dramatic like that though!

Glad to hear there is nothing wrong. I would have been really worried too.

[littleindiangirl]

WOW! That's so awesome!

My pastel recently changed color before her shed...not lighter like you'd expect but a lot darker. Not anything dramatic like that though!

Glad to hear there is nothing wrong. I would have been really worried too.

This is very common, snakes will darken up and look very melanistic before they go blue for a shed. My pastel male looks almost as dark as a normal before a shed.