So the UK Really Banned Spider Balls

[Treeman]

This is the interesting part about spiders. For you it’s perfectly fine to breed a snake with a known neurological defect but would u breed them,nope. It doesn’t make sense to me.

There's lots of things I think are fine to breed, but wouldn't want to breed myself! And that's for various reasons. Like tarantulas or scorpions for example. I think they're very neat and interesting, I enjoy looking at them for short periods of time, but I wouldn't want to breed them myself, because my interest in them doesn't go beyond looking at them through glass for a few minutes at a time, and definitely not into keeping them as a pet, let alone trying to handle and breed them. This doesn't mean I would discourage anyone else from breeding them, as there are plenty of people that enjoy them and will care for them. I think the reason many people have said that they are OK with others breeding spider Ball pythons but not they would not do it themselves is the feeling of responsibility. Do I think spider bp's are cool and good looking? Yes. But do I want to have to deal with responsibility of breeding a snake with increased risk of neurological defect if something goes wrong? Nope. I'd rather breed a different morph so I have a lower risk of having to see snakes do what we see on those videos, and a lower risk of having to make the decision to euthanize if something does go wrong. Of course, issues requiring the animals having to be euthanized can happen in all animal species.

And that's the decision a breeder has to make, if they want that responsibility. If they are willing to take it on, sure. But that's not something everyone wants to do knowing these risks.

So that's what I think it comes down to for a lot of people on here, and at least it does for me. The responsibility of having bred spider BP's, and ending up with one or more with neurological defects. Knowing what we know now, I would hate to breed this morph only to see one of these babies demonstrating this issue.

Hope that made sense to everyone.