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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VanessaS" data-source="post: 77566" data-attributes="member: 4948">That's kinda what I thought too. Whenever they look different, I figure that there are one of each.This is the second time this has happened to me and I am beginning to think that the cosmos is trying to send me a message to start breeding (which I am not ever going to do) - first my boy/girl pair of G. pulchripes and now these two smithi might be a pair as well... might be. I have noticed that one smithi is bigger than the other, the male G. pulchripes is very obviously larger than the female, and he said that the smithi started out the same size.  I understand that the males normally will grow faster than the females.I just like knowing their sex as soon as I can so I can monitor the males and not do anything to accelerate their maturing.The two G. pulchripes cost me two hours driving and $40.  The same guy had a female B. smithi for sale for $150 which I didn't take.  Now I get three tarantulas for $50 and an hour driving.  Even if all three turned out males - that is a deal that you can't pass up. If even one turns out to be female, then this was an epic deal.</blockquote>