Desert Spiders?

Howdy people! So after looking around I found that I really love the desert spiders, think the coloring is gorgeous. So what do y'all think is the best way to build a breeding program for them? What snakes should I begin with?

A male desert and a female spider.

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Originally Posted by Subdriven

A male desert and a female spider.

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How much are you looking to spend?

As little as possible? lol. I will probably start with babies and let them grow, take my time. Someone had said in another post under the picture section that it was a desert and a bee?

desert gene + spider gene = desert spider
desert gene + bumble bee (spider gene + pastel gene) = desert bumblebee

a male desert will run you about $2500

I think a desert spider is about $4000-5000

There is a breeder in town who has a female spider, just born this year, for $175. Is that a decent price? I know above people mentioned prices on the desert, but nobody mentioned the spider pricing. I tried to look up spider prices but keep coming across only adult animals in the $800 range.

As long as it is healthy, a good eater (on rats), and a good looking Spider that is a very fair price, a little below the typical online market price (usually you can get a good deal from a local breeder or show since they don't have to pay to ship).

I am waiting for a response on how she's been eating and waiting for a picture as well. Thank you for all your help so far, Adam, you've been really nice! I know I am flying a little blind lol. A spider would be one step closer to what I wanted to begin with... maybe I'll get the cinny and a spider to work toward the cinna bees lol.

Though if I get a baby spider girl, I may be better off buying a baby boy too, since I have to wait for the girl to age anyway. :D

Okay so she has been eating consistently, on rat pups right now. This is her...

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What do we think? lol

that's not a very good pic :P

I know lol. Its all the breeder has on his phone though, he's currently at work, we've just been texting back and forth. He said he could send more when he got home. He did say she has a pretty reduced pattern, in general he's been pretty nice. He even offered to sex Crawly for me if I bring him along and teach me to pop. lol

I'd pass on her, keep looking.

Well, she's semi-reduced.

A true reduced spider won't have any of those little black dots on the sides of the spider lines.

The spider is going to be the easy part. The desert is going to be a lot harder and way more expensive. The good thing is, if you buy a desert male and spend the 2K or so, you'll be able to breed that male to several females and make some very pretty, as well as pretty valuable, babies.

Gale

I went and took a look at her, I was just super excited that a spider was around in my price range. The breeder was extremely nice and very helpful. He spent time showing me a number of his snakes, including both parents, a cinny male he has for sale, a pied female, a bumble bee, and even a clutch of eggs set to hatch in the next couple days. I fell in love with her. I think she is absolutely beautiful... I am not sure what you guys will think or if she's a really good spider, but I think she's stunning.

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Originally Posted by Crawly's Mom

I went and took a look at her, I was just super excited that a spider was around in my price range. The breeder was extremely nice and very helpful. He spent time showing me a number of his snakes, including both parents, a cinny male he has for sale, a pied female, a bumble bee, and even a clutch of eggs set to hatch in the next couple days. I fell in love with her. I think she is absolutely beautiful... I am not sure what you guys will think or if she's a really good spider, but I think she's stunning.

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That's what matters, that YOU like her. Congrats.

So long as she isn't a complete dud and I totally got had! lol. I am still new to morphs, so I took this guy at his word for most of it. She isn't quite as yellow as the pictures make her out to be, I think that might be more the flash. I think she's pretty though. Is she a good spider?

I picked up a male spider for $125 in August. Thats him in my avatar. Its up to you but I like spiders that have whiter sides than the one you are looking at. Besides that she looks fine to me

Maybe I cling to the weirdest of things... but she has this "splat" mark on her back. That black web looking design that has five points. I really like it lol.

You looked at her and like her, she is eating well and is already on rats, which is good.

With the quality of the animal and a fair price I'd say it looks like great deal.

Yep. Eating rat pups and pooping. The breeder said he holds back on all his snakes till that have eaten consistently and are passing waste. She doesn't wobble at all, which I heard was an issue with spiders. The breeder actually said he's never had a spider that wobbled. She was alert, no sign of any labored breathing, has already shed. Overall health wise I think she looks really good. He did say too if I was interested in the cinny he'd take 125 for him. Which was pretty tempting! BUT I held off. No reason to have an adult breeder male if I have no females of age lol.

I figure I should pass this along, I was told this in a thread that I asked what line of pastels to look into.

I was told that the only thing that matters is if YOU like the way an animal looks. Its offspring could look drastically different or a lot alike. If you like it and are willing to pay what is asked there is no reason to hesitate. It won't have inferior genetics or anything like that.