Marius wrote: ... Heh! You got me there!

Let's try this: If the carapace of the female is at least the same size as the male you have to mate her with because you can't wait for the next molt to see if the spermatheca are dark?

A better idea is to go ahead and breed the immature/mature female anyway as long as you have a male and you think the female might be old enough. What have you got to lose? You're going to lose the male in a few months anyway. And, as long as the female is large enough, mating her won't do any harm even if she is still immature. And, if she's mature you may end up with 100-300 babies out of the deal.

Or, you could check your little 8-legged girl's ID to see if she's old enough to attend this XXX flick!

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Doesn't this run the risk of the male injuring or attacking the female?

As usual Uncle Stan is spot on, this said by my own trial & error.

@ Marius: Please accept the answer, do not qeustion the answer. If you knew a bit more about

Uncle Stan, you'll understand.

PS: If you have internet acces to this forum, surely you have google. It just a crap load of reading & then you'll almost know nothing, but you'll know a bit more. Just like everybody else. The human race doesn't even know 10% of the animal planet knowledge combined, shocking!!!

@ Duan: No disrespect man, but me not question an answer? Not in this life.
To directly quote Mr. Schultz "Question your little 8-legged authorities!"

I know full well who 'Uncle Stan' is.

I'm not sure I follow where you are going with my internet connection, google and the shocking animal planet.

Oky,

It wasn't aimed directly @ you.
But just in general that the human population know very little regarding the animal world.
And that there are a fast amount of info on google, just must readi it up.

Peace, out

Yikes! A lot of twisted panties here!

Marius: I had a situation where a C.cyaneopubescens MF was put with a slightly bigger mature male and it almost ended in tears (for me) - they started fighting and the female almost got hurt. Luckily the male lost interest and he died of old age a few weeks later.

and..

IMO Google is last in line when it comes to being a trustworthy source for information. Any idiot can create a webpage, post pictures of curlies and call it something else. I'd rather ask Q's on forums (like this one).