Bryan, Dale is 4 or 5 years old now and 7 inches now and 4 3/4 across. So I've heard the female should be older and bigger then Dale, although I don't know if this is the truth. I would like to get one slightly bigger then him. I don't actually know the age in which they breed I was hoping it would be a few years down the road though. That's not really what I'm interested in is babies. I'm more interested in getting him a friend and I hear that the females get a long better with the males then the males do. I don't know what Cherryheads run at that size if anyone could tell me I'd like to know.