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- Jul 18, 2002
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with thousands of spiderlings hatching from eggsacs, and with those thousands of spiderlings being sold / traded / given away, i was wondering how you breeders out there make sure your female isn't mating with her brother who has been kept in cooler temperatures (thus slowing his growth speed to inadvertantly match a female), or if your male isn't drumming outside his sister's burrow (because she was kept at warmer temps to speed her growth rate up). is it just a luck of the draw situation? or is there really that much of a difference between the rate in which a male and female mature (regardless of temp, etc)?
to clear up the simple stuff: i know males grow faster than females, therefore they mature faster. i'm also aware that the male doesn't have long to live after his final maturing moult. in addition, elements such as temp, etc... contribute to the speed in which males and females grow. just wanted to clear this up because i didn't want any posts saying, "inbreeding is impossible because male brothers die before the female sisters mature" or something. unless, of course, that is the end-all truth.
to clear up the simple stuff: i know males grow faster than females, therefore they mature faster. i'm also aware that the male doesn't have long to live after his final maturing moult. in addition, elements such as temp, etc... contribute to the speed in which males and females grow. just wanted to clear this up because i didn't want any posts saying, "inbreeding is impossible because male brothers die before the female sisters mature" or something. unless, of course, that is the end-all truth.