Ok so I bought my rose hair and later learned that he is a male he's fairly large and I think I bought him after his last molt because he has the "mating hooks" and the round black bulbs on the end of his pedipalps. I am worried because I read that after they devolop these their life is pretty much over is this true?
This site told me that information http://tarantulas.com/rosea.html look at the topic is your rose a mature male?

I bought mine a few-months-ago and he already had his hooks. Didn't die yet ...

Damn I was hoping you were going to tell me the website lied
I really love this Tarantula he has lived 4 months so far. How can I prolong his life is there any way.

There's a technique but it basically involves removing the pedipalds and softening his hooks. Trust me, too much effort. I'd say a MM rosehair can go like a year or so.

Yeah, just pimp him out so you get some babies.

I'm really sad now. But I will def get a female

I won't try and do it but we do have a specialty vet in Toronto. They deal with insects and arachnids and other exotic pets.

I'm curious to know how that works? Does it actually work, have you seen it first hand?

I haven't either and I can't find anything on the web about it.

I'm thinking of getting a female and breeding them. How many spiderlings can a female have? Aprox how many of those will survive? And what do I need to do once they are born?

My fiancee bred this species a couple years ago. The sac had around 400 eggs, around 300 hatched (when they're in the "eggs with legs" stage, they can cannibalize their neighbors), and once they molted into mobile little spiderlings she put each into a 2-oz delicup with a bit of cocofiber.

The sac in question was dropped in August of 200 . . . 7? Yeah, '07 I think, and my little T that I kept is now a little over 1/4" legspan (probably closer to 2 cm).

Wow they are slow growing aren't they? ummm....my rose is HUGE about a 6" leg span how old would you say he is?

you can never tell how old a T is by looking at it.. but he is a big boy. my rosea dropped a sack (very unexpected.. and unsuccesful ) and she was TINY.