Breeding a spider with a severe wobble

[rabernet]

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.

Exactly - and like I said earlier in this thread - the degree of wobble is as random as the degree of white on a pied.

You can have a low white pied throw high white pieds, and vice versa.

Same with spiders. You can have minimalist wobblers throw train wrecks and train wrecks throw spiders with barely detectable wobbles.

If the wobble could have been selectively bred out of the spider and all spider combos, it would have been done already.