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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MassExodus" data-source="post: 128999" data-attributes="member: 4086"><p>Thistles, never the twain shall meet? Never? How bout wandering spiders in bananas? In England..and please dont say thats not natural. WE are natural, and whatever effect we have on nature..is natural. Im not trolling either, I just tend to question everything.. And to be honest you still haven't given any decent reason why two spiders of the same genus shouldnt be bred. Other than the usual theory that its going to screw up our current filing system. You say race is like "subspecies"..call it what you want, but we're all human, and these are all tarantulas. Classifying them into categories is for description, its a human thing. And oh how we dont like questioning the status quo! Who's to say tarantulas in the same genus arent meant to breed? You? You seem sharp Thistles, but I need more than an opinion. I really wonder how many of these "pure" species we're so proud of are the result of crossbreeding. Not to mention wild cross breeding. I would still like to see a long range project, years of selective cross breeding,  documented, with a new species at the end. Call me a bad person, but I'd love to see it. I'm not talking about some dude letting his ornata have a go at his metallica. I'm talking about years of breeding, with the goal of a new species in mind. Yes, yes, the casual asshats throwing crossbreeds into the hobby without saying anything are hurting the hobby. I agree, when someone buys a vagans, they should get a vagans. That doesn't rule out crossbreeding completely, not in my mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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