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    Re: Spider wobble in full effect

    Quote Originally Posted by Delilah View Post
    If I had a child born with a defect, I would probably wish my child did not have a defect. ...The tendency to be overweight is both genetic and environmental and can in many cases be controlled..... A 'simple' neurological defect?-- like cerebral palsy? ...
    As for whether or not Little People should be "culled" or "allowed to breed" is A. Ridiculous B. not my personal business as it is between whatever couple and their Maker since we are referring to humans in that example, and C. My words are being exaggerated and bent like a Spider Ball's Neck! Come on! Thank you to all of you who understand what I am trying to say. I think the overall opinion of everyone here is not to kill any well functioning spider, nor to cull out the morph altogether, but to be more SELECTIVE in our breeding of this morph so that we can lessen, reduce, improve, and eventually eliminate this defect.
    I'm interested in exactly how YOU propose selectively breeding the wobble out of the spider? Take my four spiders, all with barely detectable wobbles (much less than the one in your video when they eat). Spider male is being bred to a non-wobbling normal female this year. The females will be bred to non-wobbling other morphs.

    Spiders are one of THE MOST outcrossed animals to non-wobbling normals, and yet, every single spider produced wobbles - from barely detectible to trainwreck - often with every degree being displayed in the same clutch.

    Yes, it's quite a lofty goal to have, but surely you don't think that you're the only person in the past ELEVEN years who's ever attempted it and come to the same conclusion? That conclusion being - spiders wobble - the degree of wobble that is produced is not dependent on the degree of wobble of the parent.

    I wish you all the luck, but your spider wobbles, whether you wish to acknowledge it or not, it wobbled throughout the video. Your spider will pass that on to any spider offspring as do ALL spiders.

    We're not just saying it to be argumentative with you, honestly. But it's going to take you breeding them yourself to come to the same conclusion that well respected breeders in our industry have already come to. All spiders spin/wobble.
    Last edited by rabernet; 02-07-2010 at 07:04 PM.

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