Exotic pet trad in cebu has now boomed! especially tarantula;s and scorpions and that is good.
The bad thing about this is with all the breeding of the common species price has dropped to an almost unreasonable price. Let us try to bring it back by doing something about it before this gets out of hand. I know this is a delicate issue but if we wont act now this problem might never be solved and we would just see this magnificent creatures later on to be sold in small plastic bags and would only sell for 5pesos just like our local KAKA.
Just post your suggestions and actions so maybe we could be heard or a formal meeting would be done to the known breeders and sellers so our suggestions would be heard and actions would be taken.
I am not a breeder and one thing i could suggest is collecting all female tarantula of the commonly bred species and try to keep it until prices would go back to prevent further breeding by non experienced breeders.