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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DTG" data-source="post: 43309" data-attributes="member: 3447"><p>I agree completely.  There is no benefit to the hobby or tarantulas in general by hybridization.  In the right circumstance, it could wipe out a population of species in the hobby.  If P cambridgei or irminia were no longer imported, (I do not know if they are still imported), and a few of the mature hybrid males were sold as one species or the other and were bred into pure lines, then it is possible that people would not even realize it for a generation or two and the problem would just snowball and every hybrid bred into pure lines would destroy that entire line.  If it happens for multiple generations all those spiders would need to be destroyed and those breeding projects would have taken away from the captive pure population.  This can easily become an impossible situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>