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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DTG" data-source="post: 38514" data-attributes="member: 3447"><p>I think both of you have a point, but we have moved from the main point of the post, is there anyone out there that still has the brown form.  I have no idea if anything I have mentioned is true, I was away from the hobby for a long while and when I came back in, everything had changed. I don't breed anything that I will not keep if I am stuck with it.  Rick, what you say is true when you mentioned that animals can have a fashionable time, when they are popular and then when everybody is breeding, interest wanes.  I believe that even if the interest in a particular species diminishes, it will pick up eventually.  I have seen it with snakes, turtles, frogs and tarantulas.  You will always have your bread and butter species, Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens and Avicularia versicolor, but even if you breed Pterinochilus and the market becomes glutted, you can market them and interest will come back.  Some breeders give them as freebies or wholesale them out.  I do both those things and also trade.  As you mentioned, money is always a factor.  Rick Stallard, there has to be a value to make any hobby worth it.  Luckily we live in Countries where even bottlecaps and thimbles have a marketable value.   It costs the same to feed a 300 dollar spider as it does a five dollar spider.  I cannot believe that Aphonopelma seemani is in demand right now.  I had them in the nineties and they didn't really interest me.  I will stick with Ephebopus murinus, in my humble opinion they are more interesting<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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