"I'm surprised that there aren't more snakes know for "spinning or kinks" but i suppose out in the wild there is much inbreeding too so maybe they are actually designed for it."



Actually it doesn't look like inbreeding is to blame for either caramel kinking or spider spinning.



I've read that about half of the imported caramels where kinked and I've heard first hand reports of het X het breedings where all the caramels where kinked but non of the possible het siblings where. The entire clutch has the same amount of inbreeding so the distribution of kinks tends to indicate that it's being homozygous caramel and not other genes concentrated by inbreeding that causes kinking.



Spider is probably the most outbred morph in existence, perhaps even more outbreed than most wild bred normals. Several generations of 6 month old males have been bred to large numbers of older (and likely imported) females. Again, the multigenerational distribution of spinners that I've read about tends to support the condition going along with the spider gene it's self.

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