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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 38347" data-attributes="member: 3524">They get to be a fairly big spider (I have some 6" girls), I wouldn't breed one until it hit 5".  If you rush it with a female that's just hit puberty, you're much more likely to get a small sac with a poor survival rate.  Young females are still growing and would have the competing demands for growth vs egg production, and may do neither one well.  There's no rush. With US Aphonopelma, the species are in a state of mass confusion, and are difficult to identity.  They're are often misidentified ('chalcodes' is almost a generic name given to any blond desert tarantula).  You should make every effort to get a male from the same area your female (or her parents) were collected from to avoid creating hybrids.</blockquote>