Quote Originally Posted by joebad976 View Post
A buddy of mine paired Spinnerblast to spider this year got 6 eggs. 5 babies were deformed or died through incubation and he hatched one normal. It may have been temp related issues but personally I stay away from spider to spider pairings. Myth or not....its take a long time to produce hatchlings and I would hate to lose a clutch trying to figure out if it is a myth or not.
Chance of those 5 out of 6 eggs being homozygous spider would be quite slim, obviously it could happen but sounds like another issue.

Quote Originally Posted by coreydelong View Post
Spider x Spider is just plain not a good idea. Advice from many breeders will be to avoid that pairing.

Spiders alone have enough neurological deficits. We don't really need "Super" forms of them floating around to further muck up the gene pool.
Where do these other breeder draw their conclusions from? If the spider is a dominant trait, how would the super "muck" up anything worse than the heterozygous?