In the article above....
i just did a pin x pin breeding and got all pins, it doesn't prove out any supers. Any of those offspring has a 33% chance of being a super, it takes breeding records to prove it out though. No one has done that with a spider yet, at least that I have seen.Direct Evidence:
Recently Greg Graziani posted up a great statement about his breeding results on his Facebook page:
“In 2013 we bred a Spider Piebald (from a Leopard x Spider Leopard breeding theorizing that is was a Super Leopard) to 3 females for a total of 23 eggs. None of the offspring were Leopard. We are now convinced that the Leopard gene and the Piebald gene can be separated.
To further support our theory we have been made aware of 2 other Super Leopards that were not Piebalds. One of which is owned by Markus Jayne and was proven after producing 5 clutches with 100% of the offspring displaying the Leopard trait.” Read his full statement here.
To summarize the quote: First, Graziani proved that a Spider Piebald that was produced by two Leopard parents did not carry the Leopard gene. This violates point 1 & 2 above, breaking the theory completely.
Second, he proved two Super Leopards that were not visual piebalds, and yet did not look different than a regular Leopard. This violates point 1 above. It also shows that the the Super Leopard does exist, but hasn’t been shown to be visually different than a standard Leopard.