Help: My spider turn...gray

[muddoc]

Does the temporary color loss seem to coincide with the females being gravid (and is the color loss only with females)? Perhaps when a female's body is short on resources and she's building up eggs, the eggs are priority over the pigmentation process during her shed?

Anyway, it's a very interesting phenomenon Pictures, pictures while it lasts!

In most of the animals I have read about or heard about, I don't recall it occuring near breeding. In fact most of the occurances that I can recall, it happened in sub-adults.

T, I am glad you got plenty of advice that allowed your mind to be at ease.

Sincerely,