Hi there,
I am new to this, so please forgive me if this is an elementary question.
I have kept snakes before and have bred corns before but I am just getting into balls and want to breed in the next couple years. I just saw a bumble bee female at a shop available for very cheap. She eats properly, but she has that spider gene head wobbling thing and it is quite extreme. She is twisting and turning the head up and down like crazy and it is quite disturbing to look at.
My friend who has bred balls for years told me that it won't affect breeding if you don't mind looking at that wobble, and that the offspring won't have this problem unless I breed it to something else with a spider gene.
I had already known that the spider gene can sometimes lead to head wobble, but I always thought it was just spider sometimes having this. My friend said that it was only if two spiders bred together and the two dominant spider genes crash (leading to, for want of a better term, a "super spider") that causes this. So that as long as I don't breed it to something else with spider, then I'll be ok.
The snake seems otherwise healthy and is eating and growing, has the genes I want, and is female as I need, but I don't know if I should get it because I don't want to if it will affect breeding, or if it means that the offspring will all have this (at least more likely than just any ole' spider being bred). Can someone advise me on this?
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