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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuinnStarr" data-source="post: 204933" data-attributes="member: 37880">Hi all!I’ve been on the struggle bus with my depression recently and my fiancé has given me the green light to buy another tarantula. I’m not sure if I’m going to because I don’t know if the happiness of buying it will outweigh the added item to my list of stressors right now. (Yes, I know tarantulas are pretty easy animals to keep but depression does weird things to your brain and makes mountains out of molehills.)Right now I have seven. All slings or small juveniles and they are…B. hamorii (2” DLS - just started showing it’s adult colors after last molt)T. apophysis (2” DLS)N. chromatus (Sold as 1/8” DLS but it looks bigger than that, imo, and hasn’t molted yet)X. sp. white (1.5” DLS)C. cyaneopubescens (no clue how big this one is, it molted on Saturday and hasn’t come out of its hide yet)A. avicularia (3-3.5” DLS)I’m considering a Birupes but have no experience at all with OW’s so that’s an iffy one. That said, tell me what bright and colorful tarantulas you would buy if you were in my shoes. I am 100% not ready for a pokie, though. As beautiful as they are, it’s not something I’m prepared to take on.</blockquote>