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<blockquote data-quote="Phil" data-source="post: 83908" data-attributes="member: 4151"><p>What a great post. I too have the book that Enn mentions and from the variius discussions I have had over the years, it seems like the 70s was also when tarantula keeping started to kick off, certainly in the statds anyway, as this caused the mexican red knee to be listed on CITES as it had been desimated in the wild to meet the demand of the growing pet trade. They still command high money now even though they are all pretty much captive bred these days. I got into tarantulas as a progression from fish keeping/breeding in the late 80s/early 90s when the pet store owner I was friendly with started to branch out into "exotics". My first spider was also a mexican red knee. Europe seems to be really hot on thr hobby especially in Poland and Germany and ther is a strong following in the UK. Many of which are members here.....myself included.</p><p>I do hope iit is a hobby that grows and grows but not at the expense of over collecting in the wild. There certainly seems to be many many more species available in the hobby and given that some of them are absolutely stunning, I hope more and more people get to enjoy them. I tried to educate people on the wonder of Ts and other exotics when the pet store owner mentioned earlier, and myself, used to run creepy crawly roadshows at schools and scouts etc. I really enjoyed that. Kids werre fine, but most teachers were in sheer panic!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phil, post: 83908, member: 4151"] What a great post. I too have the book that Enn mentions and from the variius discussions I have had over the years, it seems like the 70s was also when tarantula keeping started to kick off, certainly in the statds anyway, as this caused the mexican red knee to be listed on CITES as it had been desimated in the wild to meet the demand of the growing pet trade. They still command high money now even though they are all pretty much captive bred these days. I got into tarantulas as a progression from fish keeping/breeding in the late 80s/early 90s when the pet store owner I was friendly with started to branch out into "exotics". My first spider was also a mexican red knee. Europe seems to be really hot on thr hobby especially in Poland and Germany and ther is a strong following in the UK. Many of which are members here.....myself included. I do hope iit is a hobby that grows and grows but not at the expense of over collecting in the wild. There certainly seems to be many many more species available in the hobby and given that some of them are absolutely stunning, I hope more and more people get to enjoy them. I tried to educate people on the wonder of Ts and other exotics when the pet store owner mentioned earlier, and myself, used to run creepy crawly roadshows at schools and scouts etc. I really enjoyed that. Kids werre fine, but most teachers were in sheer panic! [/QUOTE]
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