Do the ones with the twitch seem to be able to control it when they concentrate on feeding or does it just not interfere?



Do the normal siblings feed as well as the spiders? I guess it would be easy to bias such an experiment because you probably didn't keep the normals as long or pay as much attention to their eating. I'm just wondering if the spider gene it's self could somehow improve appetite or if perhaps just exceptional feeders have been bred into the spider line over the years (and of course the original one might have been exceptional by chance) and it's other genetics in the line that causes this reputation.



They are still tops on my want list and you can bet I’ll use my best females for that project (although it might be 2008 or so lol). Maybe after a few successive generations of being bred to the best normal females you would expect to see exceptional genetics gather around the spider gene or any dominant type gene.

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