Quote Originally Posted by Kurtilein View Post
its impossible to make it worse by breeding two spiders together, living offspring if you breed spider to spider will be 33% normals and 66% spiders. 66% Heterozygous spiders. What is not known is if the homozygous spiders die so super-early that they get resorbed, maybe even resorbed and then replaced, or if they turn to slugs. So, when people say the homozygous is "mysteriously absent", it means exactly what it says. We dont know when it dies, i would say somewhere between the first cell division and very early in the egg. Thats something to prove out, but breeders are reluctant to publish slug statistics on their clutches.

Pinstripes on the other hand, im more or less sure super pinstripes exist, but if they do it is the FIRST EVER TRULY DOMINANT GENE in the ball-python world. Meaning the homozygous version is indistinguishable from the regular heterozygous pinstripe. The exact opposite of albino, where the hets are indistinguishable from normals. Unfortunately its incredibly difficult to prove out. You breed a pinstripe (33% possible super pinstripe) to a pinstripe, and UNLESS you get a non-pinstripe baby, nothing is proven. It really gets into statistics then.
Interesting, lol.

Possible pinstripe super, yeah, heard that one before.
No spider super but there's a pinstripe super, yep, heard that one before.

Spider X spider makes 33% normals, 66% spiders. 66% heterozygous spiders

I'm confused, and because it's ALL speculation with no facts on the table, it will never end ...

Oh, and het albino's are pretty dang visual, as are most "so called" recessive traits