Quote Originally Posted by ShamelessAardvark View Post
Well, like I said, he's not mine, and the last time I saw his setup, it was a ten gallon tank with a little log hide and wood chip bedding. When I asked my friend about her humidity, she said she keeps it around 60%, but I didn't ask what substrate she uses.
I'll tell her what you said about the super glue, as I'm just keeping him over night and she's had more experience handling them. (I'm not afraid, but I'm not to the point where I'm exceedingly comfortable with excessive handling.)
Okay. From the setup and the picture, I may hasard a guess that she's using pine chip bedding? (just because it looks like pine bits on the paper towel in the pic). If that's so, it could be that the tarantula is suffering from the oils in the pine, which are conjectured to be toxic (if that's so, then there's not much you can do) or if it's chips like you said, then it may have punctured its exoskeleton on a sharp chip shortly after a molt, while it is still soft and not fully formed, in which case the super glue may help (but you need to be careful with that method, not to get it in the joints of the legs). Also as an aside, it could be a problem caused by the humidity in the tank, which is on the high side. These guys are desert dwelling and need literally no extra humidity in the air, so keeping it at 60% is really unnecessary and may have contributed to the leg issue if it was damp and may have gotten a form of jungle rot in the joints.