How Much Wobble Is Too Much In Spiders?

[Ginevive]

Its the equivilent to parkinsons disease in humans

Nick

It is? Please post some information to back this outlandish statement up. Parkinson's is a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system in humans. Please do explain how wobble-headedness in spiders is equivelant.

[akaangela]

If a lot of spiders have the wobble do the bees have it? I have 1 male pastel and 1 female pastel and I am getting a male spider in a couple of weeks. I want to know what I can produce with this combo? I also have 4 normal females.

[covah]

great point Nick just one problem i have 2 adult spiders that have never wobbled or spun so your theory that all spiders do it is a bit off

same here. my spider has never 'wobbled' or spun. not even at feeding time.

i wonder how many of you have noticed the spiders never refuse a feed. and anything with spider in it will generally feed well.

[Wh00h0069]

Mine don't wobble at all.

[kid_mustango02]

Yea, my spider has a crazy feed response. She starts striking the air the second she smells the mouse. Once she has the mouse, she starts spinning around violently until her whole body is coiled up on the prey. I've never seen a BP move that fast!

Never noticed any problematic wobbles though...

[Wh00h0069]

Yea, my spider has a crazy feed response. She starts striking the air the second she smells the mouse. Once she has the mouse, she starts spinning around violently until her whole body is coiled up on the prey. I've never seen a BP move that fast!

Never noticed any problematic wobbles though...

LOL, mine too. Mine actually came out of the tub striking in the air for the rat. They have a great feeding response, and are great breeders too. A breeders dream...

[FIEND_FO_LYFE]

They all have it, and have always had it. It was a dirty and quite unethical secret for years.

I would like to see a discussion on the ethics of even breeding these animals. Is it not a little unethical to continue to breed animals that are nuerologically imparied? Nobody ever asks that question.

Its the equivilent to parkinsons disease in humans, why is it acceptable to intentionally produce animals with this condition , just because they are worth a couple hundred dollars?

Nick

id have to dissagree....
ive seen adult spiders, with no wobble or spinning at all...
and many breeders are offering that if your spider you buy has little wobble... it will not get worst.

and if it does, you can get your money back, or partial if you keep the snake.

[royalpython]

Ralph and 8 Ball have said all spiders do some weird stuff, even if it's not as noticable to the inexperienced ball python keeper, it's noticable to them.

akaangela,

You can produce bee's from that and they will inherit this trait. My bee was striking from upside down tonight to get his food, missed a few times and got it eventually. My spider male did the same thing, but hit it first time (maybe he's more experienced lol ~ 2years old). They're able to go back over their own body's more obviously, hence the upside down strike.

[yfz450racer74]

ive never noticed any sort of spin or wobble in any of my spiders. what they tend to do like my normals and other morphs is kinda cork screw. what i mean by this is when they are in their tubs the night before feeding. or sometimes while being held they'll bend their heads back and then sometimes make a loop and are then looking forward again. now my spiders tend to do it alot more often and alot more extreme than any of my other morphs or normals but i have seen them all exibit this behavior. i just say the fact spiders do things more extreme and feed in weird positions it just makes them special. lol

[J.Vandegrift]

Wobble When Excited At Feeding Time & When Real Alert?im Seeing That Most All Spiders Do This,& Its Like A Dirty Little Secret Of The Morph.

For me at least, any wobble is too much wobble. That is why I don't work with them. Sucks, the lesser spider is one of my favorite morphs and I would love to have one but I guess I don't need them all.