Breeding a spider with a severe wobble

[cinderbird]

I agree.. if all breeders do NOT breed spiders that have severe wobble and check the next generation of clutches and only breed the spiders from that clutch that show no or little wobble and keep this going we may end up with spiders that DO NOT wobble.

but if we keep breeding these severe cases we KNOW that that will be passed along to some of the babies, and this keeping the wobbles going!

Except the wobble doesn't work this way. The problem is that the spider gene and whatever causes the wobble are CONNECTED. If you have one, you have the other. There is no option for separation (ie selectively breeding the wobble out).

Breed a "low wobble" female spider to a male pastel, you get some bumblebees and spiders that wobble a lot, possibly going as far as to label them trainwrecks. What do you do with those babies? Keep them? euthanize them? Sell them?

Maybe one of the babies from that scenario is another "low wobble" animal. Its a male. You breed it to 3 females , lets say a normal, a pastel and a pin. You end up with some low wobblers and some medium wobblers and some high wobblers. What do you do with the babies?

There just hasn't been a way to separate the two.

I read a wonderful article, or heard something on reptile radio about how melanin production is linked to neurological disorders. (See also jaguar carpet pythons, like spider balls they have reduced melanin.) I'll see if i can find the article.