Quote Originally Posted by Johnk View Post
I'd have to get on my computer to do a better search but on worldofballpythons.com Mike wilbanks talks about how people thought the wobble might have come from too much inbreeding but he believes it's the most out crossed morph or one of them out there. He basically says it can't be bred out and anything with spider has it. some might be very, very subtle and only when feeding. All the way up to the really bad ones that seem to have constant vertigo and need to be assist fed. It's a crapshoot basically is what I came away with. He definitely seems to know what he's doing and knows his stuff. I decided not to work with the gene just in case I do get a bad one that needs to be assist fed it's whole life. Cause I wouldn't sell it and I'd feel bad about its loss of a realish life.
Oh yeah, I know it's part of the gene and def not due to inbreeding. If inbreeding were the case it would disappear in the three or four generations removed from the base morph easily, but even those GHI-pastave-spider-what-have-yous can display it when not having been crossed back to a spider since the first one at all. I was thinking something closer to a polygenic project- breeding individuals for each consecutive generation that have the least amount of visible wobble both as adults and hatchlings. To my knowledge that hasn't been attempted yet, but if I'm wrong I'd sure like to hear about it before starting in on my own haha.