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Message: <blockquote data-quote="octanejunkie" data-source="post: 197751" data-attributes="member: 3872">Well, part of the project goal was to grow out 4 unsexed slings to confirm or deny my earliest experiences of buying slings, only 1 out of 4 will be female.The first 3 slings I bought when starting all turned out to be male, my T vagans (purchased as G rosea) turned out to be female. In this case, with <a href="https://tarantulaforum.com/threads/avic-project-thread.26276/post-170482" target="_blank">Avic Project #1</a>, the theory, or suspicion, was disproven; 2 out of 4 were male, the other 2, female.Now the next phase of the project begins, tracking maturity and breeding these 4, but not with each other, with individuals from other sacs/sources.Since beginning this "experiment" of sorts, I have tested this theory many times and have found it no to hold true (25% female) and have many females forcing me to look for males. So it was potentially just bad luck that my first 4 purchases worked out to be 1 female out of 4 total purchased. Also, those were 4 different species from 4 different sources, but it's irrelevant.Next up, rehousing all 4 of my ninja turtle Avics</blockquote>