I don't understand why no one has naything to say about how this trait could in the future ruin the spider morph. If the wobble creates ball pythons with problems like the adult male posted farther up in the line of remarks, then why continue to breed animals with a potentially deadly or just painful trait. I doubt a animal is "happy" when it doesn't know up from down because of a genetic disorder.



I would also like to say that the condition is not cute or cool. Saying that is like saying you think a nuerological disease or form of retardation in human beings is cute. I am sure I will get ripped on for writing any of this.



I recently bred to high end bearded dragons together, I mean big money animals and the resulting offspring had a big problem similar to this head wobble. The hatclings after about a week of normal growth and feeding suddenly had slight twitches, which turned into full on seizures when they became excited about food or got scared when I went to handle them. Many died due to the inability to eat or perhaps just from the pain they went through, subsequently I put a lot of dragons down this year. Even though the animals that survived no longer have the problem I am sure it is still present in their genetics. I would also like to ad that it wasn't just one clutch of eggs it was four clutches all with the same problem. The dragons I did not put down were not sold, almost all of them are either still in my care or have been given homes as adopted pets. They babies have extremely bright and vibrant color and grow and act normal but I'm not ruining the genetic field with dragons with nuerological problems. The parents came from genetic lines that I do not belive to be related, since they are home made morphs from a local show and a good friend who had the line dating back to great grand parents. I am also not a novie at breeding beardeds, I've done it for close to 4 years.



This is my opinion on the matter, don't get me wrong I love ball python morphs and have a small collection myself. I also know that there are spider lines out in the world that do not wobble ever, and I am not saying put your ball python down because it wobbles. I'm saying don't ruin the spider line of ball pythons, or at least if you are going to breed and sell spiders with wobbles then say they wobble so it is made clear you are selling a potential genetic pool ruining animal.



Thanks for reading my rantings. Please feel free to rip my thought and opinions apart now.





MC

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