05/29/2026
This is very well said 👏🏼.
Unrelated, keep an eye out for our new sunny side up vanilla to***co taboo voodoo line!
But for real, most of the people offering these made up names don't even have "lines" going. Many of these names were made up by a few mass wild catchers and they literally slap labels like "dragons breath" onto any orange Regal they find.
It's personally a red flag to me when I see someone offering dragons breath regals (or similar) because it lets me know they probably got their regals from mass wild catchers and they are just flipping WC, not doing captive bréd.
While I'm in this rabbit hole, anyone advertising gravid jumpers is not pairing them to re-home them as fertile females. They are labeling the wild caught mature females as gravid because females in the wild are paired immediately upon completing their final molt. No real bréeder is offering egg sacs or gravid females. If you seek out a gravid female you are really just finding a wild caught mature female of unknown age and egg sac count. The first couple egg sacs are the most fertile, so it makes a lot more sense to pair your spiders yourself 🙏🏼.
The jumping spider hobby seriously needs to calm down with the made-up Regius “morph” names.
Every week there’s a new label:
“White recessive” (typically used with males who go through a white phase, which is quite common)
“Dragon’s Breath” (just an orange Regius)
“Snow White” (a white or whiter colored Regius)
“Galaxy” (I don't even know what this one is, but I see it a lot)
“Cotton Candy” (see "Galaxy")
"Pastel" (couldn't even tell you)
"High orange" (just an bright orange Regius)
"Oreo" and "Reverse Oreo" (just black and white Regius)
"Passive recessive" (this one is actually a genetic disorder, not a color)
And there are more, those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
… and most of them are not genetically established morphs. They’re just descriptive nicknames for color variation that naturally happens in the species 🤷🏻♀️
A spider having more white scales than another spider does NOT automatically make it a rare line or a "special gene project." And giving it a fancy fantasy name doesn’t suddenly make it scientifically meaningful.
In reptiles and other established breeding communities, true morphs are proven through generations of selective breeding and consistent inherited patterns. With jumping spiders, a lot of poeple are slapping labels onto random babies (or adults) and marketing them like designer dogs and it's super frustrating. It creates confusion for new keepers and spreads misinformation. Not to mention people are charging an exuberant amount of money for them. People start believing these terms are official genetics when most of the time there’s 0 proof behind them.
There’s nothing wrong with appreciating pretty coloration or unique patterns. Just be honest about what it is! Not every white spider is “Snow White.” Not every orange spider is “Dragon’s Breath.” And not every slightly different jumper is a groundbreaking new morph.
The jumper hobby would benefit a lot more from accurate species information, ethical breeding, and proper care education than from inventing trendy names for marketing, but that's just my opinion and I've been known to have confrontational opinions 🤷🏻♀️
So with that (finally) said, here's Quacky, one of my high oranges LOL.
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