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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thistles" data-source="post: 85793" data-attributes="member: 3949"><p>Yeah, I do think it's a hybrid. Even a molt wouldn't confirm it for me because who knows which side of the family she'd take after and to what degree? I've only raised 4 P. cams, but they've all been light. Sure, there are variations in some species, and in some that variation is due to hybridization. In others, it's probably due to the founder effect working on the small population of CB tarantulas. I would not rush in to call such a drastic difference in color in a species we already know has been hybridized a color form. Is it possible that it's just a change in the population over time? Sure. Is it likely? Nah, it's way more likely that some jelly got into that peanut butter. Again, I'm not blaming you. You sold it as what you bought it as. It could happen to anyone. I am saying that that specimen shouldn't be bred.</p></blockquote><p></p>