not necessarily safer thats the only word i could think of off the top of my head but i would love the extra weight so theres less of a chance on being egg bound and dying one of my friends on here had a female weighing in at 1195 before she was bred and she ended up dying from being egg bound but like i said some prefer 1200 grams so im not saying they have to breed at 1500 grams its just what I do