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<blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 187566" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>Before Christmas, I sent a local dealer a list of my males who I thought were close to maturing & of my females who I thought were mature, who he could borrow to breed with. I do not breed, so I do not check female molts to see if they are mature. Thus I spent some time, just out of curiosity, looking around at online information, about female tarantula sexual maturity.</p><p></p><p>Today I came here to find someone had asked about his T. I do not want to confuse that post. As the poster of the question, has very few posts listed on their profile & I don't want to spoil their thread for them, or confuse that thread. But it reminded me of what I think I may have read before Christmas.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My question is.</p><p></p><p>I do not know where I read it & it may just be in my imagination. But I am positive I read somewhere that, although a female is fully matured when her spermathecae becomes sclerotised, (hardened.) It is possible for some T's to revert to an unsclerotised spermathecae with some molts. Thus a sclerotised spermathecae, is an indication that she was fertile, but it is not a 100% indication that she currently is. I seem to remember it being suggested that this may be natures way of giving her a year off breeding, occasionally. Does anyone know if the above is correct, as google has proved no help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m0lsx, post: 187566, member: 29323"] Before Christmas, I sent a local dealer a list of my males who I thought were close to maturing & of my females who I thought were mature, who he could borrow to breed with. I do not breed, so I do not check female molts to see if they are mature. Thus I spent some time, just out of curiosity, looking around at online information, about female tarantula sexual maturity. Today I came here to find someone had asked about his T. I do not want to confuse that post. As the poster of the question, has very few posts listed on their profile & I don't want to spoil their thread for them, or confuse that thread. But it reminded me of what I think I may have read before Christmas. My question is. I do not know where I read it & it may just be in my imagination. But I am positive I read somewhere that, although a female is fully matured when her spermathecae becomes sclerotised, (hardened.) It is possible for some T's to revert to an unsclerotised spermathecae with some molts. Thus a sclerotised spermathecae, is an indication that she was fertile, but it is not a 100% indication that she currently is. I seem to remember it being suggested that this may be natures way of giving her a year off breeding, occasionally. Does anyone know if the above is correct, as google has proved no help. [/QUOTE]
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