Questions about a Spider BP with the"wobbles"

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Originally Posted by fionab

my friends spider corkscrewed so much he couldnt even strike his food and had to be PTS, Once i saw this i made the decision never to have anything with the spider gene, each to their own but I cant positively say that it doesnt effect their quality of life... no one can cos they arent the snake. Snakes are instinctive animals and like all reptiles will not necessarily show pain and discomfort as it is a weakness and to be weak in the wild means death.
Its an individuals choice and I dont judge others on their choice. this is just mine but I wouldnt put wanting a nice coloured and patterned animal over the possibility of an animal suffering.

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Thats so sad about your friends snake. Mine doesn't have it that bad but Im not sure if it can get worse over time or not. He has eaten once so its not bad enough to affect his eating.

Nice looking little spider! Me, I love spiders. :)

On the bitey note, if you just got him 8/25 you should be letting him settle in before handling him, for a minimum of a week. Let him be until he has eaten for you a few times. He is probably just scared and stressed.

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I like my spiders wobble :) gives her character shes also one of my only snakes that sits with me when i take her out which is great!

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Originally Posted by fionab

my friends spider corkscrewed so much he couldnt even strike his food and had to be PTS, Once i saw this i made the decision never to have anything with the spider gene, each to their own but I cant positively say that it doesnt effect their quality of life... no one can cos they arent the snake. Snakes are instinctive animals and like all reptiles will not necessarily show pain and discomfort as it is a weakness and to be weak in the wild means death.
Its an individuals choice and I dont judge others on their choice. this is just mine but I wouldnt put wanting a nice coloured and patterned animal over the possibility of an animal suffering.

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Although I've never had a spider that had a wobble as severe as your buddies or even met anyone who has, we no longer work with the spider gene due to similar feelings about the wobble defect. We have owned several spiders and every last one was great. They were all among our best eaters and breeders and had a lot of personality (for a ball python), but they just aren't for us anymore. We've both been more of pinstripe fans than a spider fans (I consider them to be similar morphs).

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Oops, hit post on accident. To the OP, I don't want my post to come off as anti-spider. Far from it. I would recommend relax and not worry about a little wobble as the others have said. You will quickly learn it isn't really an issue in 99% of cases.

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Originally Posted by AK907

Although I've never had a spider that had a wobble as severe as your buddies or even met anyone who has, we no longer work with the spider gene due to similar feelings about the wobble defect. We have owned several spiders and every last one was great. They were all among our best eaters and breeders and had a lot of personality (for a ball python), but they just aren't for us anymore. We've both been more of pinstripe fans than a spider fans (I consider them to be similar morphs).

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Oops, hit post on accident. To the OP, I don't want my post to come off as anti-spider. Far from it. I would recommend relax and not worry about a little wobble as the others have said. You will quickly learn it isn't really an issue in 99% of cases.

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My Leon, as he approached his first birthday, went 'berserk'.

Prior to that, he never displayed any wobble at all.

He was restless, roaming all over his tank [which he previously loved], was poking at the lid, often twisting his head upside down, not eating and generally acting wonky so I put him in a 10 gallon tub where he can no longer crawl up the sides or be stressed by the little bit of light he could see coming through the top of the lid.

He's now calm, eating again and not wobbling all over the place.

I hated to take away his nice big home but it seems to have become a source of sensory overload for him which exacerbated his wobble onset.

[I also think he 'hit puberty' recently and that had a part in it, too]

Gorgeous little guy :) Ours nipped at us in the first few days we had her home and has since settled into a complete couch potato. He might be hungry. As soon as we fed Bella, she completely chilled out and has been a lazy, easily handleable little fatty ever since.

She does wobble a bit every time we feed her, though, and generally mis-strikes the first time. I freaked out about it at first, but others on the forum have assured me that she is fine as long as she feeds well.