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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Jay" data-source="post: 130039" data-attributes="member: 27677">What do you mean not colourful? Brown is a colour, grey is a colour! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />There is a subtle beauty in the Australian species, many shades of brown from a deep chocolate to a yellow tan colour and everything in between, then you have the greys from silver to "blue" to charcoal. Often these browns and greys are on the same spider in different combinations and even within species there are wide variations. I'm not saying I wouldn't like to own some colourful nw species , but I liken it to cichlid keeping, some love the African Rift Lake cichlids with their bright blues and oranges, others like me keep American cichlids because we like their subtle beauty, some appreciate both equally. There's beauty in everything around us if we look at things properly!  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>