B.albopilosum. Hobby or true form?

[SpaceM]

Just bought a juvenile B.ablopilosum sold simply as a "curly hair" and wondering what peoples thoughts might be on the form.

It's only 5cm dls so i'm thinking that it's possibly a true form due to it having more setae on the pedipalps and the satea on the abdomen being curlier than pictures i've looked at of hobby form and it just doesn't look as hairy due to it being juvinile? I suspect this may just be my wishful thinking though.

 

[Liquifin]

Looks like a Nicaraguan Curly Hair. There really isn't a true form. What you mean is hobby (used for Honduran Curly Hair in the hobby). And I think you mean to say Nicaraguan. But it looks nicaraguan to me, with straight, uniform hairs, with many aligned hairs. But I would wait for it to be a bit bigger to know a 100%

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Honduran/Hobby form or Nicaraguan form*

There is no "True Form" (despite vendors in the UK labelling them as such), wild caught specimens from both localities look completely different. Everyone seems to think that every Honduran form is a vagans hybrid (some of them are but you can tell them apart fairly easily).

Honduran form (subadult female)

0.1 Brachypelma albopilosum (Honduras)

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Kitana rocking her new suit.

Nicaraguan form (around 4-5cm DLS, probably has another moult or two to go before it starts having a bad hair day)
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[Moakmeister]

“True” just means it’s the same as any given one from the wild, i.e. it’s an actual B. albopilosum.

The “hobby” form is actually not a B. albopilosum, it’s a hybrid of lots of different species. It just happens to look kinda like a B. albopilosum.

I personally think it’s iresponsible and wrong to breed the hobby form nowadays, and they should be allowed to die out so they don’t continue endangering the DNA of themselves and other species.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

“True” just means it’s the same as any given one from the wild, i.e. it’s an actual B. albopilosum.

The “hobby” form is actually not a B. albopilosum, it’s a hybrid of lots of different species. It just happens to look kinda like a B. albopilosum.

I personally think it’s iresponsible and wrong to breed the hobby form nowadays, and they should be allowed to die out so they don’t continue endangering the DNA of themselves and other species.

Doesn't exist anymore something like 'hobby' form, 'true' form, or whatever. Those are sophism, now.

For that the advent of Peanut, the legendary Theraphosidae, was an avalanche. Spread Her verb

 

[SpaceM]

Thank you for the clarification everyone. I was familiar with the term Nicaraguan but i'd ignorantly assumed it was just synonymous with true form.
I'm fairly confident it's not a hybrid and i guess i'll just have to wait to be sure whether it's Nicaraguan or Honduran.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

The “hobby” form is actually not a B. albopilosum, it’s a hybrid of lots of different species

Yes it is, it's a locality variant, wild caught albopilosum from Honduras and Nicaragua look completely different. Yes, some of the Honduran stock in the hobby are hybridised but it'd be more irresponsible to let a locality variant completely die out within in the hobby just because it's not as popular or because people just assume that every single one is a mutt.

 

[viper69]

The “hobby” form is actually not a B. albopilosum, it’s a hybrid of lots of different species. It just happens to look kinda like a B. albopilosum.

Where's the data on this? Is it possible someone made hybrids, yes...Is it likely all B. albo's are hybrids..No.

What you wrote is only rumor.