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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DTG" data-source="post: 43300" data-attributes="member: 3447"><p>The problem with controlled environment situations is it does not stop there.  If someone sees an article on hybridization and they think it might be interesting to try and if they are successful and put them out on the market, someone who is unable to move them will sell them as a full species.  I know this is happening in England as the BTS recently put an article out about it.  Someone hybridized Psalmopoeus irminia and cambridgei.  Another hybrid that seems to be showing up here in the U.S. is Brachypelma baumgarteni.  People are making them artificially.  I do not agree with doing it for any reason.  If animals are to be hybridized, let the Lord do it, not us humans<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>