possible het?

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Originally Posted by python_addict

lol i was gonna say something like that too spiders are dominate morphs meaning they dont have super forms so they cant be het spiders i wish cause my ideas of super spiders would be amazing for combos but you can have spider het caramel albino or pied but no normal het spiders just like you cant have normal het mojave lol

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I can understand why you would say that because of how people talk snake lingo, however...

Being a dominant morph means the heterozygous (het) form and homozygous (super) form look exactly a like. You can see this with the pinstripe and congo.

There however is know homozygous spider, therefore every spider is heterozygous (het) spider. In the case of mojave, mojave would be the heterzygous (het) form and super mojave would be the homozygous form. so all mojaves are also hets.

How ever the snake lingo drops alot of these words to shorten things up, we normally only say hets with talking about recessives, but actually every morph has a heterozygous and homozygous form (spider is still up for debate on the homozygous thing)

I've always wondered if you breed a spider to a spider if you have a chance to breed a homozygous spider that looks like a spider (no visual super). You won't be able to tell if it is homozygous until you breed it to a normal and get all spiders out the clutch.

Of course if you breed a spider to a normal then you have a chance to get all spiders out of the clutch (awesome odds:gj:). You would need to breed said homo-spider to a number of normal females to determine if it is homozygous.....

But then there is talk that the spider is a sort of suicide gene that when a homozygous is formed in the egg it will die before hatching, hence no super is born...

I dunno, for now i sit on the 'there is no super spider' side of the fence, if one had been hatched we would all know about it cause spiders have been around for ages.