Quote Originally Posted by MarkS View Post
It's been tried. Many times over, so far unsuccessfully. If you want to give it a try, I wish you all the best of luck. I've pretty much stopped breeding spiders because of their issues so if someone could figure out how to consistently produce non-spinning spiders I'd really appreciate that.
Wow really? That bad? I have a spider-ghost project in mind because I adore hypo queen bees.

OP: I also read that some spiders with little or no wobble as babies sometimes grow into having wobbles as adults, or vice versa, they could grow out of it... seems impossible to monitor unless you're willing to keep every spider you'll produce through its life. Some have conditional wobbles... like my bee; I only notice he has a wobble when he's excited, typically when I feed him- he usually misses once or twice before he gets it, or I also notice he takes a while to "focus" on the mouse. He tends to stare it down and let it walk literally right by his nose for about five or more minutes before he finally decides to strike. By contrast, I put a mouse in with my normal, and BOOM, fatality.
Of course, he may get a worse wobble when he's older... but maybe not. We only know with time.


On a slightly different but still relevant note, I read spider x spider babies have 25% fatality rate. Is this true?