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Assuming that a specific genetic flaw alone causes bad molts (which as far as I know isn't a theory that has yet been studied by arachnologists, possibly because there are too many other variables to consider...temps, humidity, food, gender, elevation, etc) what you're saying would only be true if you're breeding them. In these very rare cases of a T getting firmly stuck, most of us don't care about the genetics of that specimen, because it's never going to be bred anyway. We'd just like to save its life, if possible.What’s worse is if you have a spider that is somehow genetically weaker than average, nature would select them out (perhaps by getting stuck in a molt). When you help them, that removes that selection pressure. And that spider may go on to produce hundreds of offspring that could possess that same defect, and you now have a population of hobby spiders that can’t even make it through a molt on their own.