I started out with a normal male, started researching care and ended up here. Found the for sale section here and ordered me a spider girl for a lot of money cuz then they were super expensive, also read somewhere that normal females are the greatest way to build your collection so went hog wild and bought three or four here and there, started realizing credit cards were not the best way to get started. So did a few payment plans for hets that I liked, and just put whatever money I had left from working two jobs towards new stuff, and keep doing that. Before long I decided I wanted to practice a year before I tried breeding that first female spider, last year I produced two clutches, and mainly i learned more than I ever thought I could, got a nice holdback and sold enough to get a couple more female morphs. This year I finally have that spider going and a handful of normal females, and sixty some snake. So basically I did it as fast I possibly could without putting myself in a financial crunch, but not so fast that I couldnt prepare myself for feeders or rack space or whatever. Just a lot of hard work and plenty of mental planning got me to where I am now.