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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arachnoclown" data-source="post: 215846" data-attributes="member: 27444"><p>You need to know her molting cycle. All females are different because of their age. Young females may molt once a year and older females may be 2-3 years. The optimum time for breeding is 6 months after molting, any time after that she may be starting to grow her new exoskeleton. Then you also have to cool her down in that same period after she molts. To make it even more difficult the male has to be freshly mature within 4-5 months that she hits all those periods. You can't just put a male in with her for a long period of time and hope the best. She will kill him. Egg sacks very from species to species. Some sacks may produce as little as 40 to as high as 1600. Tarantula females have to have a dark spermatheca to be old enough to breed. Males have to have had their ultimate molt.</p></blockquote><p></p>