inbreeding being "looked down on" is more of a human ethics thing....
While inbreeding consistantly can cause problems- defect, etc-- the having a daughter back to father or grandfather isn't a huge problem.

Example: You want albino spiders
You need to breed an albino to a spider
some of the babies will be spider het albino

You can take a spider het albino and breed it back to the original albino-- and have a shot at albino spiders....

In a sense- its "cheaper" to use daughters back to parents- instead of maintaining multiples of every morph...

If you wanted to avoid inbreeding-- but wanted albino spiders you could have 2 albinos and 2 spiders-- breed both pairs together and make 2 clutches of spider het albinos--- then cross them over to the other father albino...

What a lot of ppl. dont want to do is breed and feed double the animals for one project....

make sense?

~Beth
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• Inbreeding - exoticball, Sat Aug 9 14:56:14 2008
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