dont stress, im sure they mated... i mated mine once with one insertion and the second attempt the male lost a pedipalb..... that was it. id say he was lucky. she laid a sack last week. good luck.

Unfortunately no insertion was made I sharked tanked them last night and I just put the male in with the female and she is still tapping away, and the damn male keeps running away damn wuss.

Guys my female is confusing the hell out of me, after my attempted mating in the video, I tried again a few days later and it was the same story; the female was tapping and the male was running away, so I left it. Again I tried a few days later and about 4 or 5 hours into it I noticed the male and female tapping, the male was trying for insertion, but after a few tries he backed up and I left them for another hour or so. When I came back to check on them I noticed the female was rubbing her epigastric furrow, so I assumed the male got his insertion and the job was done.

A week later(last night) I decided to try again just in case no insertion was made the last time, as soon as the male entered the females enclosure she started drumming, again I left them for a few hours but this time when I came back the female was rubbing her epigastric furrow even more than the first time and she did not stop rubbing every few seconds for about 4-5 min. So I am really confused :huh: would a female rub her epigastric furrow for nothing or does she just love mating and the male has actually done his job more than once? I dunno any breeding experts care to share there thoughts?

Spiders can mate numerous times, just because he gets a good insertion doesn't mean the female won't mate again with him. A lot of breeders mate there spiders more than once just to make sure. The female will stop mating when shes gravid and if u try mate them the male will most likely get eaten.