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I was looking through NERDs new site and came accross the Albino Spider (awesome) I was reading through and got a little confused. I know that its hard to get one via breeding but not impossible. I was a little confused on the genes scenario. You can't breed and Albino and Spider to get the Albino Spider? Do you need to breed a Spider 100 percent het for Albino with an Albino in hopes of getting and Albino Spider? And in order to get a Spider that is 100 percent het for Albino you would need to put an Albino and a Spider together and the resulting offspring should be Albino and Spiders that are 100 percent het for Albino? I know it's a lot but I just wanted to make that I understood what I read. Thanks for the help!

First you breed an Albino to a Spider. Everything from that breeding will be either normals that are 100% het Albino or Spider 100% Het Albino. Take any of those Spider Het Albinos and breed to an Albino and hope you get an Albino Spider from that pairing. Hope that helps.

well first the genes you would be working with would be recessive (albino) and dominant (spider) so breeding a spider to an albino should produce 1/2 spiders het albino and 1/2 normals het albino. then you would breed the spider het albino to an albino, het albino or spider het albino to get to your goal of an albino spider.

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Spider x Albino wouldn't give any Albinos? Just Spider het or normal het for Albino?

A spider x albino will NOT give you any albinos. It will give you ALL 100% het for albinos, weather they are normal looking or spiders, they will all be 100% het albino. Take those spiders (which are also 100% het albino) and breed to an albino. Thats how you try for the albino spider. Hope that clears it up a little more.

Yeah I got that part, I was just a little surprised that you don't get any Albinos from combination. Anyways thanks to everyone for helping me clear that up.

well as a recessive trait the only way to produce a visual is if both parents carry the gene, whether it is a visual albino or a het, they both have to carry the recessive gene.
http://ballpython.ca/what_get/recessive.html this is from markus Jayne's site its about the most user friendly genetics chart I've came across. hope it helps.

The easiest way to do this is to break it down into the diffrient genes, then put them together. If you breed a spider to a normal, you should get half spiders and half normals. If you breed an albino to a normal, you will get all 100% het albinos. So when you put the two together, you get from spider to albino, half spiders, half normals, all 100% het albino. To create an albino you need either an albino or het and breed it to an albino or het. When you breed an albino to a het albino, you should get half albinos and half hets. So if you breed a spider het albino to an albino, you SHOULD get quarter spiders, quarter albinos, quarter albino spiders, and quarter het albinos. Sorry for the long answer, hope it helps.