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Well, our male matured about 2 weeks or so ago. I posted these pictures in our photo thread, but considering they're not very common and they're beautiful, I thought I would post a picture of our mature male on here, for whoever doesn't look at our photo thread or what not. We sent him off this morning to someone with a couple of females on a 50/50, so fingers crossed he gets the job done!
He matured at about 2" in less than a year after being 'born' (for lack of a better term). His emboli are huge in relation to his body. The genus Heterothele don't get tibial spurs, but there was no mistaking his enormous emboli when we were checking to see if he had matured. Our last mature male (H. mac) had puny emboli in relation to the size of his body, and since they don't get tibial spurs either I spent like 10 minutes everyday searching for his emboli to make sure we were right that he had matured. There were no questions with Cobra.
Anywho, just thought I would kind of share these pictures with everyone since he's no longer with us. We're actually really glad that he was a male. We thought he was female, just based on ventral sexing, and then this last molt we were pleasantly surprised that he was an ultimate male.
This is a picture of him when he was penultimate:
Thanks for looking
Cass
He matured at about 2" in less than a year after being 'born' (for lack of a better term). His emboli are huge in relation to his body. The genus Heterothele don't get tibial spurs, but there was no mistaking his enormous emboli when we were checking to see if he had matured. Our last mature male (H. mac) had puny emboli in relation to the size of his body, and since they don't get tibial spurs either I spent like 10 minutes everyday searching for his emboli to make sure we were right that he had matured. There were no questions with Cobra.
Anywho, just thought I would kind of share these pictures with everyone since he's no longer with us. We're actually really glad that he was a male. We thought he was female, just based on ventral sexing, and then this last molt we were pleasantly surprised that he was an ultimate male.
This is a picture of him when he was penultimate:
Thanks for looking
Cass
