I think it's female - there seems to be something there that wouldn't be if it were male. The glare from the light is right in the wrong place, though, so it's making it hard to be certain. If you can use a paper towel and dab up some of the water between the forward set of book lungs (right at the point of the toothpick on the right), then you should be able to see 2 antenna- like structures with a flap of tissue over the base of them. Like this:
im new to sexing via molts so i wanted to run this by the arachnoboards before making a final judgement. i had trouble finding reference pics online for this species. they’re a large? T, about 4.5 inches or more now and just recently molted. (9...
I think it's female - there seems to be something there that wouldn't be if it were male. The glare from the light is right in the wrong place, though, so it's making it hard to be certain. If you can use a paper towel and dab up some of the water between the forward set of book lungs (right at the point of the toothpick on the right), then you should be able to see 2 antenna- like structures with a flap of tissue over the base of them. Like this:
im new to sexing via molts so i wanted to run this by the arachnoboards before making a final judgement. i had trouble finding reference pics online for this species. they’re a large? T, about 4.5 inches or more now and just recently molted. (9...
Thank you so much! I was able to dry it up a bit and adjust the lighting. I think some of the structures for the spermathecae got damaged in the process of untangling it, but I'm pretty sure you're right!
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