Quote Originally Posted by Galaxygirl View Post
After speaking to breeders that have hatched thousands of Spider x Spider babies and held back babies to prove out a super spider with no results, it seems like one can't be created for some reason. I thought maybe a homozygous spider would result in a slug or the egg rotting sometime during incubation, but with people like TSK and Starzman trying the breeding for years with no unusual increase in slugs or bad eggs (or white babies), it SEEMS like that isn't the case. Maybe for some reason a sperm carrying the spider gene isn't even able to fertilize an egg that also has the spider gene. I have no idea.
I agree. I don't believe it's actually possible. They just aren't viable. With how many people do spiderXspider and get all good eggs, I don't think they exclusive die in the egg or become slugs. I think some times they can also fail to develop from conception in the mom. I think combo disrupts the DNA so much that no matter how far it makes it in development, it will never thrive. I'd like to see the average eggs laid by spider female that were bred to spiders vs the number they laid with non spiders to see if she lays fewer eggs.