The flipside of that is also true. If spider to spider can produce viable homozygous forms, then I would expect someone to have produced them by now, and be willing to cop to it.

I really dont want to derail this thread into a big argument. Ill just give my opinion and leave it at that.

The jag mutation in carpet pythons operates identically to the spider gene in ball pythons (huge pattern reduction, neurological impairment). Jag has been proven homozygous lethal. Most eggs never come full term, a small percentage do and either fail to pip or die within 24 hours. A viable homozygous spider has never been produced that the public has been made aware of. To me the parallels are pretty obvious. Super motley boa constrictors are in a similar vein. Ive drawn my own conclusions, not saying anyone else should do the same.

This is an arguement that will never be proven one way or the other. There just isnt enough publicly available data to make any conclusions one way or the other, and I doubt there ever will be. You do you, ill do me.

Peace

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