For the het clown: Anything clown or het clown is your best bet. If it's an albino het clown? Awesome. That's all babies het for albino and you get a 25% chance one being a clown as well. Without the clown gene in the male, only 1/2 the babies will carry the clown gene as a het and you won't really be able to tell which ones reliably.
For the spider:
One other thing you should also be aware of with spider gene...Don't breed spider to spider or champagne. These genes are considered lethal when trying to breed them together. The egg typically dies in incubation, but will sometimes hatch a baby who won't live long. It's like breeding 2 manx cats together.
It's definitely one of those dividing opinions in the hobby. But spider is not the only gene that produces a wobble, it's just the most prominent. There's also still many people breeding super butters or lessers even though they can cause eye defects. Or Super black pastels even though it can cause facial deformities or kinks. Or there's still some people producing the lemon frost leopard geckos, which caused tumors.
I feel like breeders working with spider gene should be open about discussing the wobble when selling any animal with the gene but feel that any animal with a consistent wobble should be removed from any breeding programs. If BPs were an arboreal species I would would probably be against continuing the spider morph in lines as that would be a much greater issue with the livelyhood of the animal.
My spider only showed her wobble the first 2 weeks I had her. No issues with it since. And even when she DID show the wobble, it was only a slight head bobble when she went into defensive strike mode. I'm hoping that maybe now with more knowledge about the gene, outcrossing more and breeders avoiding spiders with visible wobble the issue will become less prominent, but only time will tell.
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