is there a lethal gene?

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

No.. its not Lethal the first one just had a box fall on it an killed it. Tracy told that on Reptile Radio. Its only fatal when you drop heavy objects on them. :D

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Must have missed that episode. I swear somewhere I've seen a picture of two side by side...

What's heavy? My mom dropped a 5lb hide cave thing on a ball pythons head some 6-7 years ago. It survived, had a flat head for quite a while, but still did great.

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Originally Posted by RKO

I swear somewhere I've seen a picture of two side by side...

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Jeremy Stone has some that I think are about a year old now give or take (probably 08's as well) ... I know that he's posted a picture of two of his side by side on kingsnake a couple of times.

-adam

Summary Post:

Spider x Spider = Unknown ATM (From what I'm told it's just more spiders, but no super, but I intend to test this myself in the future)

Pin x Pin = Super Pin with no visible difference between a Normal Pin except that when bred to a normal they produce 100% Pins. (God I hope that's right...and I intend to try it out myself)

I want to see a powerball!

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Originally Posted by AaronP

I want to see a powerball!

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Ask and Ye shall receive.

http://www.boaconstrictor.com/produc.../powerball.jpg

ok so what are all the combinations that never live?

or usually never live

That I know of its just the Pearl aka super woma

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Ask and Ye shall receive.

http://www.boaconstrictor.com/produc.../powerball.jpg

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That thing's insane! And I agree, the only one not to consistently survive is the Pearl Ball.

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

How is it lethal its called a "spinner"

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Freakie, I do believe Randy was reffering to when Spiders and Pins are paired with each other and not a combo of the two different genes. I could be wrong, however Randy knows his stuff when it comes to genetics and I believe the sentence just came out wrong.

As for lethal genes, well considering how long it took for breeders to admit to the neuro problems with spiders, I wouldn't expect strait answers on this one. The breeders with the largest sample sizes, that may have answers, generally don't want those types of things made public for fear of bashing a project and upsetting those that have already spent money with them. There will be plenty of opinions, but not enough hard facts to back them up either way.

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Originally Posted by karbogast

Freakie, I do believe Randy was referring to when Spiders and Pins are paired with each other and not a combo of the two different genes.

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Ok I'm lost Randy didn't say that. WingedWolfPsion said that and to my knowledge when Spiders and Pins are paired with each other you have a 1:4 shot at producing a combo called a Spinner or are you saying that the non-combo offspring die. If so that's also not true to my knowledge.