How Many Morphs Are Created Through Inbreeding?

[aalomon]

That makes me very happy to hear! I honestly thought that due to the more complex morphs back in the day people inbred due to lack of other BP's with similar desired genetics. What about the morphs which have so severe wobble they die younger, what is the point of making those morphs?

So far there are only certain combos that cause death - referred to as lethal combos - not single genes. The closest thing to a fatal single gene is desert females who can die of complications if bred, thats why female deserts are sold as pet only. Spider wobbles almost never interfere with the animals ability to function (even if they act funky). Youre more likely to hatch out a hatchling kinked from an incubation issue than have a spider that fails to thrive due to spinning.

When a new morph contains a genetic defect does that lower their cost? Thank you by the way your post was very very helpful. Seems that with only basic grasp of inheritability that they teach in high school anyone could predict the genetics with BP's (Though it seems the more expensive/rare morphs usually have something more complex about them). So people don't inbreed BP's to make sure for example the lines of a pinstripe don't break off/separate? Oh, i thought it was taboo because no one ever really talked about it and some people would delete said comments haha but it seems comments were deleted because of annoyance not avoidance.

It depends what the problem is. Sometimes people dont mind (spiders wobbling) and others it crashes the price of the morph (infertile desert females). Inbreeding does happen occasionally, but 1-2 generations is usually perfectly fine. Remember, inbreeding does NOT cause issues, it only exposes pre existing issues that had been hiding.

Usually if anything is deleted or ignored its because there are still a lot of people out there spreading bad information. Its still common for people new to the hobby to talk about breeding the infertility issues out of deserts by adding more genes. Comments along those lines are frowned upon because it will likely just lead to a lot of dead animals.