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That breeding a spider to a spider is "deadly?"
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-David Harrison-
.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
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"Have you ever tried simply turning off the T.V., sitting down with your kids... and hitting them?"

becuase some believe that spiders have weak genes, its a dominant trait, no point in it anyway.
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jake

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0.2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
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0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
1.0 albino cal king (zeus)
0.0.1 wc garter (zim)
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Because no “super spider” has been shown to exist, there are two trains of thought, which were combined by goregrind in his response.

One is that spider is a dominant trait, and no super exists. If this is true, there are probably quite a few homozygous spiders out there. I have heard a FEW reports of a male spider siring all spider babies, which would indicate a homozygous sire. If dominant, a homozygous spider wouldn’t look any different from a heterozygous spider, but it would throw ALL spider babies. I think that would be quite desirable! The only way to be sure you have one would be to breed it. You could never be 100% sure, but after several years of all spider offspring, you could be purty darned sure!

The other theory is that the spider trait is lethal in its homozygous state. If this is the case, all homozygous babies die either before hatching, or shortly after. I don’t know of any studies to support that theory, except that no “super” exists.

I'm hoping for dominant!

Steve