Hmm, i think you'd be best to wait 2 or 4 weeks after he's adult before you put him in (or perhaps that what you meant). Fresh males can be withdrawn or seem to lack the confidence of mature adult males. My fresh bicolor male ran away from the female and done everything he could to keep as much distance between them as possible. Despite reruns over the next few weeks he still lacked the confidence to get on with it. Figured out in the end that he may have associated the strong phenomenal odours with danger because it wasn't until i made a fresh mating tank up that they mated. Whenever he went in with the female in her enclosure he hid away and i simply think the main mistake was putting them together before he had confidently stepped into his role of mature male (not psychology, physiology). The strong pheromone smell within the females enclosure triggered some kind of danger reaction that he reacted to each time i put him in her enclosure.
