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Hello,
What is a woma ball python? Is "woma" just a name for geogrphically where they are found? Or is it a term for a specific pattern morph? If you bred a woma to a spider, would you get spiders or womas het for spider? Thank you!
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Woma balls are a co dominant mutation. If you breed a spider to a woma, you should get womas, spiders, and a combination woma spider (don't know if ther's a catchy name for it yet), which, to me, looks likea spider that someone has taken all the white out of. There are photos of all three on NERD's website (link at the top of the forum).

The subject you mention regarding what a Woma X Spider cross would look like is a strange one indeed... This topic and similar ones mainly regarding the Spider, but also the Woma, have been hinted and guessed at for several years now. I do know that just like the Spider, the Woma has no known super form to date that I have seen? Talk of a homozygous lethal gene combination in Spider X Spider and Woma X Woma breeding has been discussed (and also vehemently denied by some well known names) on here more than a few times over the years? To me the Spider and the Woma seem so similar that I wonder if the Spider X Woma cross would produce a similar lethal result if one or the other-or both of the other crosses are deadly?

My guess is these questions will be answered in the very near future by some avarage Joe who doesnt have his investment to protec and that doesnt need the dangling carrot of a super form of the Spider or the Woma(or even the Calico for that matter)to keep prices up. Not to mention the effect homozygous lethal combination might have to potential business.

There is a super woma called a pearl and it's been produced by NERD multiple times. Unfortunately it's a lethal form, and all examples of the trait have died.

You are correct. I forgot about the Pearl...I can only find like 2 photos and they are all babies. Shame..beautiful animal.

Too true. It's definitely depressing that such a beautiful animal is unable to thrive. Same thing with super jaguar carpet pythons.

The woma spider, or spider woma, has been produced. there are photos of it on NERDS website-it looks like an ugly spider. I don't know what the survival rate is on the offspring, however. I've also heard mention of "super spider" being a lethal gene, and I vaguely remember the pearl mentioned below too.