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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nada" data-source="post: 2590" data-attributes="member: 361">Yes, and no. I can tell you why it looks female, however, ventral sexing is not 100% accurate. So I can't tell you why it IS female.With a male your looking for a secondaryu set of spinnerets. These are used for making sperm webs. on darker Tarantulas, they make what I call an "Against the grain" pattern. Basically you have a patch of inconsistent hairs,sometimes creating a (very obvious) half circle. the lack of the secondary spinneretts (Epiandrous fusilae) suggests female.</blockquote>