@cold blood They were willing to mate, so same species or not, it would have happened even without this person's help. Attitude aside, unless you are suggesting Ts can be persuaded to mate against their own will, the person did nothing wrong. I cannot see the logic in claiming he/she did.
@Eva Actually it's not illogical in the least, and no, just cause they were found near each other doesn't mean they would have mated anyway. It's irresponsible to mate unidentified species for a simple reason, there's a risk of hybridization. These hybrids then often get passed off as the same thing as one of the parents, it misleads other buyers who think they have the real deal and then on and on it goes until no one can figure out what the species is anymore. Not saying this is the case here, as I don't think the OP has any intention of selling the offspring, but it's still not advised to mate a spider with another unidentified spider unless one is absolutely sure of the ID of both specimens, things go wrong when two different species get introduced to each other with the thought that they are compatible, often ends with a spider being killed.
im not saying they couldnt be the same species, they likely are, the issue is that they were being paired without having a clue what species they were...in the thread the op made it clear that he/she didnt care if they were hybrids and would have still paired even if he/she did know they were differrent species.
And yes, species that would otherwise never meet, can be induced to pair...theres a vid out there of a G. rosea successfully pairing with an A. avic.
Even if those two lived in the exact same area they wouldnt contact one another due to vast lifestyle differrences.
@Eva here's an example. Blue and gold macaws and greenwing macaws live in the same vicinity even flock and forage together and are in fact capable of inter breeding. In the wild they do not do so even with the opportunity. But in captivity they are put together for breeding and have hybrid offspring.
The biggest problem with your argument is you don't have the correct information to argue with. It is an age old battle trying to get people to understand that you can not compare what happens in nature to what happens in captivity or when humans intervene and try their hand at creation. It's just incomparable. The potential with what she is doing here is that true species in her location will be muddied and she can't control what others will do with the offspring.
Bottom line is, it's honestly not the right thing to do in any way.
@cold blood@Blue Jaye Ok, if there is a chance a T can be persuaded to mate with a partner that would not be "a good catch" for it in the wild, then you're right. How does it work though? What does captivity change on the T's taste? And I don't think that parrots are a particularly good analogy either, because they are known to want to shag anything, even humans. The more brains one has, the more perverted one can get. Just look at humans! Invertebrates can't get kinky, can they?
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