Ok, you cannot tell me I am the first one on this forum, to ask NERD directly (founders of the spider project) about the homozygous spider.... but yet time and time again, we are told that the homozygous spider is lethal, it doesn't exist, kevin told all of us.

100% WRONG

All i did was ask them, I believe my exact words were "Hey, since you guys are the founders of the spider project, what do you know about the homozygous spider being lethal?"

They told me that its a rumor that started around the time kevin started selling his spiders and never left and became "fact". They have never seen anything that suggests it. How can I be the first person to post this here? I've never seen this info here, and the whole homozygous spider thing seems to be fact around here.

then it gets better

then they tell me they have a suspected homozygous spider breeding, right now, has thrown all spiders in 2 clutches ( i didn't ask them how many eggs) and came from a breeding with both parents having spider in it. They believe it to be homozygous. could they of hit awesome odds? sure they could of, but sounds like the homozygous spider looks like a het spider, just like the pinstripe (ill get back to that one later)

and everyone says NERD is so secretive, sure about some of their new high end morphs, but not this. They don't hide the fact that they have a suspected homozygous spider, they don't hide the fact that being lethal is a stupid rumor. All I did was ask them. All the shows they go to and all the people on this forum that see them there.... and im the one to bring this to the forum?

im disappointed, this rumor went on for too long, and I feel bad for spreading it myself thinking it was fact like alot of us.

Only thing I can blame NERD about is I have emailed them about 3 times asking for information on the homozygous spider and never got a response.

More rumor dispelling....




That would be a living Pearl aka homozygous hidden gene woma. They need to do more breeding to figure it out 100%, but heres the facts. They did have alot of pearls that were screwed up. They are not sure what other morphs are in this snake. They are not sure if one of the other morphs reversed what was wrong with the pearls, or if outcrossing did it.

but I got to hold it, they are not keeping it a secret, in fact he pointed it out to me after I asked about the homozygous spider. but facts are living breathing 100% healthy homozygous HG woma.

and this just needed to be cleared up....

Now about the pinstripe. Brian from BHB (founder of the pinstripe project) will not directly say a homozygous form exists, But he did tell me the facts. he has a pinstripe that came from a breeding with both parents having pin in it. 27 eggs and he got 27 pins. my math says he has a 11098/1489548344729 chance or to round it 1/148,954,834...yes over a one in a hundred million chance of hitting the odds.... you be the judge. and yes it looks just like a het pinstripe.

so what do you guys make of that?