Spied Pics???

[LGL]

The op was right the first time. I talked to Steve last year at Daytona about the spied and you do get all spieds.

What?!?!? That makes no sense genetically! If that's so, why was Steve selling Spiders Het Pied and Spiders 66% Poss Het Pied last year? If what you're saying is right, there'd be no such thing as a Spider Het Pied (which makes no sense). Please explain!

Even if you breed a Spied to a Pied, you'd still get 50% Spieds and 50% Pieds, not all Spieds!!

[Beardedragon]

What?!?!? That makes no sense genetically! If that's so, why was Steve selling Spiders Het Pied and Spiders 66% Poss Het Pied last year? If what you're saying is right, there'd be no such thing as a Spider Het Pied (which makes no sense). Please explain!

Even if you breed a Spied to a Pied, you'd still get 50% Spieds and 50% Pieds, not all Spieds!!

What also doesn't make since is that the spied comes out 99% white every time, so i could see that happening.

The Bee spied is something else as well, the way its mouth is white.

[PythonWallace]

What?!?!? That makes no sense genetically! If that's so, why was Steve selling Spiders Het Pied and Spiders 66% Poss Het Pied last year? If what you're saying is right, there'd be no such thing as a Spider Het Pied (which makes no sense). Please explain!

Even if you breed a Spied to a Pied, you'd still get 50% Spieds and 50% Pieds, not all Spieds!!

Correct. The only way to hatch all spieds (without a huge amount of luck) is to breed a homozygous spider piebald to a piebald, and no one even knows at this point whether a homozygous spider is even possible to produce. A spied x pied would get you half pieds and half spieds. A spied x spied would increase your chances, but if you have a pair of spieds, you probably have a regular pied to breed to the spied, so that seems like a waste of a breeding season for a perfectly good female spied.

[bait4snake]

This would throw genetics out the window... more in depth than all the BEL lines and the infamous "hidden/dilute gene" for the Original Platinum. Someone's gotta be mistaken.