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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MassExodus" data-source="post: 51973" data-attributes="member: 4086">Of course, watching videos isn't the same as hands on experience, but they can sure help someone learn what they need to know about a species, and how to rehouse it, and how fast it is, and what it's capable of. Owning a Ceratogyrus marshalli doesn't teach a person more about how to deal with an obt then watching an actual video of someone rehousing an obt either..As far as your second comment, you're kind of simplifying the whole situation. I never once said people should jump right in with poecis and obts, even though I pretty much did when I started in the hobby. This conversation started with Avics and Psalmos, and went to obts and Poecis because that's the way these conversations always end on forums like this, overeacting from the "experts". I recommended a versi and a campbridgei, Chubbs responded negatively, got snippy when I disagreed with him, and so it went. You can agree or disagree, I stand by what I said. I'm not sure how recommending a Psalmopoeus equals obts and Poecis, but I'm about done with the conversation.</blockquote>