is my spider matured

[mr fuzzy]

Hi I recently got 1 male and female phiddipus regius and I am planning on breeding them but I don't know if they're matured. (I have experience with taking care of them and I am sure that I want to breed them.) THX!!!

 

[TalonAWD]

For males, its easy peesey. Look at their pedipalps. If it looks like boxing gloves and not like legs, than that is a mature male. Without this one feature you would not be able to mate them. Now if the male is mature and the female is larger than the male or at least similar in size than you could technically try to mate them. But if female is smaller don't try. The worst that can happen is that the female attacks the male. But a mature male would not necessarily attack a female. His mind (once mature) is strictly on mating.

 

[mr fuzzy]

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For males, its easy peesey. Look at their pedipalps. If it looks like boxing gloves and not like legs, than that is a mature male. Without this one feature you would not be able to mate them. Now if the male is mature and the female is larger than the male or at least similar in size than you could technically try to mate them. But if female is smaller don't try. The worst that can happen is that the female attacks the male. But a mature male would not necessarily attack a female. His mind (once mature) is strictly on mating.

thanks

 

[Nicole C G]

Adult Females usually have a visible epigynum