Quote Originally Posted by MarkS View Post
I've had male spiders that were perfectly able to lock up and breed, I think the troubles that you are having are more likely because the male is young. I've had several young males that had trouble figuring out what they were supposed to do no matter what morph they were or how large and theoretically capable. Most will figure it out eventually though some do seem to take a few years.

Also, as far as visual locks, that doesn't mean he's not breeding. I once had a male het albino that I bred for several years, not once did I ever see him lock up. Never saw him courting, never saw him showing any kind of interest whatsoever and yet all the females that I put him with produced eggs every year.

you think 1 year and 4 months might be young enough? how many more months/years might be a good age for him to breed? - you do have a point. how ever i have a 10 month old male lesser(first time breeder) and he's been doing locks with no problems at all.

- as far as visuals, you do make sense, i check them before sleeping and early morning as well, i haven't seen any locks but if they did lock up, you think it happened for just a few hours while i was asleep? what's the shortest number of hours you've seen a male lock up with a female?