LesserxSpider clutch

Congrats! Nice clutch. :gj:

the odds were not that good, but still, you hit lesser, and spider, and lesser spider. and they all look cute and healthy, and the thing with bad odds is that in the long run it always balances itself out.

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Originally Posted by kikkimea

Nice! Our first clutch in the incubator is Spider reduced x Lesser :)

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Hope you get some knockouts for yourself! The mother for this pairing was a reduced Spider too!

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Originally Posted by Pythonfriend

the odds were not that good, but still, you hit lesser, and spider, and lesser spider. and they all look cute and healthy, and the thing with bad odds is that in the long run it always balances itself out.

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I don't know if I'd say the odds were bad. It's a 1/4 thing so statistically speaking, with seven eggs, there could have been like two of each. But in the end it mostly just boils down to luck anyhow. Now 1/128 odds, that's what I'd call bad.
I can't wait to try out this pairing again in the future though, I didn't get the Lesser Bee I wanted but the Spider and the Lesser sibs on there own were very encouraging.

in the pairing, you would expect 1 morph gene on average per egg. so for 7 eggs, on average, if you count it up, counting a single-gene morph as a 1 and a double-gene morph as a 2, you would expect something around 7. you got 4. thats quite rare. 6 or 7 or 8 would be most common, followed by 5 or 9.

the exact opposite that is statistically equally rare, but with the luck going in the other direction, would be 10 morphs in the 7 eggs. meaning a result like: 3 lesser spiders, 2 lessers, 2 spiders, no normals. or maybe 4 lesser spiders, 3 spiders, 1 normal.

so the odd gods really havent been merciful to you. do repeat the pairing, the chances are really high that you will get better odds next time.