I know there's like a million spider wobble threads out there though I guess I have some questions about how to feel about the ethics of it.
I have a very sweet male hypo butter bee who I'm wanting to eventually breed to my two females (hypo super mojave and a butter), he hasn't displayed any wobbling as far as I've noticed but I know that doesn't matter as it's more tied in with the gene and not always the severity of the parent.
Regardless of who I breed him with he'd still have the chance of producing a morph with a spider gene, thus the chance of any level of wobble.
I got into a discussion with someone today over whether it was ethical or not to breed him knowing that there was still that chance at the neurological defect - which they feel it's irresponsible to breed any spider-gened BPs because of this risk.
I've heard that it doesn't hurt the snake, and that they can still live completely fine with it (though I don't know if this is true for a high severity of wobble), but at the same time I almost feel guilty about it. ):
I'm not sure how I should feel on the matter. How do you guys see it? Do you still support the breeding of spider-gened BPs, do you avoid it?
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