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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Suzanne cartmale" data-source="post: 71267" data-attributes="member: 4892">Hi I am new to the forum so hope somebody can help me.  I bought a Chile Rose as a six week old (approx) spiderling.  It is now five years old and is still extremely small!  I am talking no bigger than the pad of my thumb.  It has shed its skin three times in the five years, and has noticably grown in that time, but I thought that they reached full size around five years old and Elmo (my name for him/her) is still extremely small!I have had a Chile Rose before, and a Mexican Red leg,  both bought when pretty much full grown, and my fella has got some serious growing to do, to match them. Anybody any thoughts on this?  I wondered if he is a she, and perhaps because they live longer, that perhaps they take longer to reach maturity?</blockquote>