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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghost" data-source="post: 43926" data-attributes="member: 3461">If you male is already larger than the female then he's going to mature before the female is ready,even if you were to lower his temps and not feed as much and up the females temps and power feed her he would probably still mature before her,they really shouldn't have been sold as a breeding pair,when a female T matures it doesn't always mean they will breed right away you sometimes have to wait for the molt after they mature before they are receptive to a male.I always give my female T's another molt after they mature before I try breeding them,I'm sort of in the same postion as you with my H.maculatas as I got 2 slings and when they were big enough for me to sex I found I had a male and female so what I'm going to do is when the male matures is send Him out on a breeding loan that way I get some slings for him,then when my female is ready for breeding I will get another mature male for her, this is probably what you should consider doing with your A.mets.....</blockquote>