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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 38500" data-attributes="member: 3524">The problem with the brown form in the 1990's was: 1) w/c adults were common and cheap, 2) very few people wanted to own any OW's back then, especially a brown defensive one, and 3) therefore there was little interest in breeding them.  The brown form disappeared from lack of interest.  In the meantime the hobby's shifted direction and now OW's are popular.  Too late for the brown form. The orange form was easier for dealers to sell, but it's not like people were waiting in line for them.  Still wasn't a big seller (nowhere near as desirable as any of the NW's were).  I seriously doubt anyone was crossing the brown and orange forms.  No one knew they were the same species.  It was only a small segment of the market that would consider buying either one, so demand wasn't hard to keep up with.  It's a prolific species to begin with. I doubt Mark Hart would have bothered breeding the brown form as slings only went for a for a few dollars and the market was very limited.  His goals were bigger than that.  I traded a number of the OW slings I hatched out to Bryant Capiz, so part of those he sold came from me.  Bryant wasn't into OW's at all (except Poecs) and he thought I was crazy for wanting them. Florida gets 40-50" of rain every summer, which is way too wet for murinus to survive.  The ground's soggy, puddles all over, the air is thick; it's like a wet sauna for 4 months straight.  Some days we'll get 2 or 3".  Semi-arid species won't make it.  The flip side is that there's not much rain the rest of the year, and species that could handle the wet summers, wouldn't be able to make it thru the prolonged annual droughts.</blockquote>

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