normal and spider... what will the babies be?

[Sausage]

I currently have a normal male BP. I'm looking into getting a female spider and raising her and my male until they are old enough to reproduce. If they did eventually have offspring would half of the babies be spiders and the others normals? Or would they be something different? I'm doing research on breeding and everything, as I'm still pretty new to it.

[Freakie_frog]

50% spider 50% normal

[Sausage]

ok, that's what I figured but I'm still pretty new to snake breeding. Are spiders a good investment?

[Freakie_frog]

I love Spiders they are one of my favorite's. Spiders are the gateway to loads of cool morphs, Bee, Lemon blast, Albino spider and so on. Since they are co/dom they will get like pastels in that they will steadly go down in price but will level off. They are a great morph to start breeding with. Now if you get a female it'll be three years till she can breed by then spiders will be like pastels get you a male spider find a breeder size female and breed in one year to see a quicker return on your investment

[ZEKESMOM]

Ok so you get 50 %visible spider and 50 % normal....would the 50 %normal be 50% het for spider...then could you breed back the 50 %het to the spider and the normals would be what % het for spider....sorry to jump in on this. I also am trying to learn and understand the genetics of breeding.

[piranhaking]

No, there are no hets. To be spider they only have to have one copy of the gene. They either have it or they dont. The non-visual babies are 100%normal.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Ok so you get 50 %visible spider and 50 % normal....would the 50 %normal be 50% het for spider...then could you breed back the 50 %het to the spider and the normals would be what % het for spider....sorry to jump in on this. I also am trying to learn and understand the genetics of breeding.

To understand a little more about genetic I would recommend you to visit Mark Mandic website he made the genetics pretty easy to understand.

http://www.ballpython.ca/genetics.html

[cueball]

50% spider 50% normal

What Ed really means is that each snake has a 50% chance to be a spider and a 50% chance to be a normal

[Sausage]

Thanks for that link! Looks like spider would be the way to go.

[cueball]

Looks like spider would be the way to go.

Spiders are AWESOME