Quote Originally Posted by West Coast Jungle View Post
There have been claims of double spiders and if this being true its seems to me it would be easier to breed the animal, preferably a male, to several female normals and you should see nothing but spiders.

The other thing to do is breed spider to spider and hold back several males and breed them to non spider females and see if one throws out all spiders.

I think so many factors play into slugs so to say it was spider related would be hard to do with any certainty.
But you have to wonder why 20 years after the founding spider sold no one has come forward with a homozygous spider. It could just be that people are much more interested in using their female spiders for combos and not enough homozygous spiders have been produced for one to get in the hands of someone who would keep records to prove it and report the results. But if spider is homozygous lethal then we will never see a proven one and dr del's statistical method of counting disappearing follicles, slugs, or egg deaths will be as close as we can come to proof depending on how early the homozygous spider genotype is fatal.