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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ceratogyrus" data-source="post: 20059" data-attributes="member: 371">Not possibly true, they are true. Speak to the guys who are studying them.Now here is my hassle.If any of the species that I have mentioned above of yours matures, are you going to send the specimen to an authority on them to see if what you have is a true species? In the majority of cases, they would have to possibly kill the specimen to be able to study it. Every time we breed a spider, we are possibly adding to the problem.Just one example from your spiders: let's take the H.gigas. How do you know its gigas? Have you checked the description paper to see what separates it from other species within its genus? Are you assuming its gigas because the seller sold it as that? Was it identified by a picture by fellow hobbyists? As a rule with certain genera, a picture alone will never be good enough for a positive identification.You see now, that even though you and everyone else in the hobby  is so against hybrids, we add to the problem all the time.</blockquote>