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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thistles" data-source="post: 75840" data-attributes="member: 3949">Well, I like to use collection boom times to determine what I really love. I used to have a lot of Avics, but as much as I enjoyed them I have decided I'd prefer to dedicate the space and time to more OW tarantulas. I still have some Brachys and Grammos and other NW hairbeasts, but I'm thinning them out, too. I haven't ever completely called it quits, but I use times of reduction to thin out what I don't love as much in order to focus on what I like the best. I like to use a 2 Ts traded/sold to 1 T acquired to sort of ease the sting. I still get the thrill of getting a new spider, but I am also simultaneously reducing the numbers.I thin out when I get overwhelmed, or I have a move coming up, or if I'm not able to give all the critters the attention they deserve. I had 23 snakes when I got very sick, and I rehomed all but 2. It's not that I didn't enjoy the snakes, but it wasn't fair to them to keep them when I myself was not well enough to devote the required amount of time.</blockquote>