Is severity of wobble genetic?

[jplehmann]

I have several spiders with no apparent wobble. And I have a pretty amazing looking spinnerblast... But he has a severe wobble, in fact a corkscrew I would say. He's supposedly proven, and so assuming he can breed would we expect his offspring to also have a more significant wobble like he does or is the severity not inheritable? Please answer based on experience, thanks!

[Daigga]

It appears to be random without regard to the parent's severity. Otherwise we could have bred out the wobble by now.

[Eric Alan]

There are lots of threads on this topic, but here's a recent one from about a month ago: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ghlight=wobble.

[jplehmann]

There was one answer in this other thread that directly spoke to my question: "wobble-less" spiders can produce trainwrecks and trainwrecks can produce "wobble-less" spiders." http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...=1#post2315463
Owal's summary was also very helpful and made same kinds of statments: http://www.owalreptiles.com/issues.php. "Breeding a low wobble Wobbler can result in some offspring with a bad wobble. Breeding a Wobbler with a bad wobble can result in low wobble offspring."

Here's a summary of other statements made there that might help others:

• all spiders have it
• it can be minor or severe
• it can change during the age of the snake
• it can be worse with stress; and perhaps improved with different conditions
• it can be worse at temps hotter than 88
• it's a matter of opinion: some people like it and some can't stand it
• it cannot be bred out; as evidence basically no one breeds spider x spider b/c homo. spider is considered lethal