I think more to the point of things, for the sake of our hobby, both for and against need to accept that hybridising is going on and will always happen.
Theres no point bashing each other about it, or getting into silly arguements about it. For the sake of our hobby those who are hybridings need to feel they can be honest about cross breeding so that those who want to stay pure can and those who want to cross breed can.
Obviously this relies on alot of honesty from everyone and lets face it there plenty of dishonest folks out there, but if we stop hammering everyone who does be honest about their cross breeding efforts more may follow, which helps all of us.
For the record i'm am strongly against cross breeding never have and never will but after years of preaching the 'pure' arguement i think it would be far more constructive to face the fact hybrids are part of our hobby so lets get used it and agree to disagree.
As for locale crossing and sub-species crossing being the same, it's true to a point, crossing a palmerstion
jungle with a tully
jungle will still result in
jungle hatchlings. Cross a darwin carpet with a diamond......what is it???
Locale crossing still gives you the same sub-species. Obviously on a genetic level all the Spilota sub-species are very similar but to us in the hobby they are very different animals and i don't think anyone would agrue that. No one will tell you that south west carpets are the same as junlges etc.
From a keepers point of view sub-species crosses are hybrids.
