My pastel male I got in 2007 grew pretty fast. In less than 2 years he has gone from about 14 inches to 50 inches as of today. I wish I had records of his weight gain, I didn't have a scale back then
--I also kinda wish he was a girl but there's no hiding those hemi's (particularily after seeing him try to breed my normal male- long story lol and both are 100% male)
Took my normal male 4 years to reach 44in. (noting that he was a HORRIBLE feeder as baby-juvie and now as an adult is a pig)
I am curious, do morphs in general have a tendency to grow faster? I've heard spiders are usually excellent feeders, growers, and breeders.
Im actually in the process of making a poll in the BP general section right now for your last question
And males will try to breed each other, I've heard of it happening before actually. Perhaps your pastel is just very open minded