How Pet Chaco Tarantulas Mate

Video Transcript

"If you want to breed your tarantulas, you are going to have to sex your tarantulas, which isn't the easiest thing to do. If you are not a spider expert, the best way to sex your tarantulas is to wait until they are full grown. Now male tarantulas, such as this male Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula, as compared to the female, you can see that she has a larger body compared to his thinner, smaller body. He also appears to have longer legs because of his small body as well. Now, if you take a closer look, at this male Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula, you can that he has little tiny hooks, right there on his first legs. Those little hooks assist this tarantula in grabbing the females fangs to keep them out of his way, as he mates with her. These appendages right here, the pedipalps, on a male tarantula, look like tiny little boxing gloves and that is where he stores his sperm. He uses those little pedipalps to transfer the sperm to the female. Female tarantulas, as I have said before, are larger and bulkier then the males."