I've only got 4 Brachypelma vagans that started out as 10 black dots with legs that I got from a friend who breeds them. I'm not that much into spiders but these are fun.
Carlson, you may be interested in a MN group called Minnverts. It's a Minnesota group for arachnid enthusiasts. It's a fairly new group and they don't have a web site but they do have a Yahoo group. They meet every so often in one of the members homes to talk spider talk.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/MinnVerts/