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<blockquote data-quote="Ceratogyrus" data-source="post: 59060" data-attributes="member: 371"><p>Hybrids can be bred otherwise there would be no need for concern as the hybrid offspring would never amount to anything. Generally tarantula people run around with blinkers on. It would be almost impossible to prove, but my feeling is that most people have hybrids in their collections. How many breeders ever check their spiders against the description papers before putting them together? More and more people are breeding spiders and just take the word of the breeder or what they found on Google or what people identify the spider as from a picture. Don't believe me? How many people on here can say that they have compared any of their spiders to their original description papers? Even if you are not breeding them. How do you know what you have is correctly labelled? Is that what the breeder told you? Compared it to pictures of the spider on the net? I think if we really sit down and think about genera where the species can be confused, we are in for a major shock. Avicularia, Brachypelma, Chilobrachys, Hysterocrates, Pamphobeteus, Grammostola, Ceratogyrus, Poecilotheria are just a few that come to mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ceratogyrus, post: 59060, member: 371"] Hybrids can be bred otherwise there would be no need for concern as the hybrid offspring would never amount to anything. Generally tarantula people run around with blinkers on. It would be almost impossible to prove, but my feeling is that most people have hybrids in their collections. How many breeders ever check their spiders against the description papers before putting them together? More and more people are breeding spiders and just take the word of the breeder or what they found on Google or what people identify the spider as from a picture. Don't believe me? How many people on here can say that they have compared any of their spiders to their original description papers? Even if you are not breeding them. How do you know what you have is correctly labelled? Is that what the breeder told you? Compared it to pictures of the spider on the net? I think if we really sit down and think about genera where the species can be confused, we are in for a major shock. Avicularia, Brachypelma, Chilobrachys, Hysterocrates, Pamphobeteus, Grammostola, Ceratogyrus, Poecilotheria are just a few that come to mind. [/QUOTE]
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