Can I keep it?

Check your setup against this sheet

Setup

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
25–32°Ambient

One ambient band, 25–32°C. This sheet states no warm side, no cool side and no night figure, so none are shown. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet states25-32 °C.

14:00
Day

Drag the sun. Dragon-headed Katydid is Nocturnal, so what it is doing changes with the light.

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
25–30 °C
Humidity
70–80% (mist)
Min. enclosure
Tall mesh/vivarium with foliage
Furnishings
Branches & leaves to climb/feed

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

What it needs

A thermometerbecause Temperature — 25-32 °C.
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet states no size

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Food

Diet

Staple food
Herbivore — fresh leaves (bramble, oak), fruit
Note
Some individuals take protein — offer occasionally

Daily life

Behaviour and handling

HandlingMinimal: spiny, can nip
MoltingMolts hanging: needs vertical space + humidity

Health

Common health problems

Failed molt
Signslow humidity / no vertical space
Prevent≥ 2× body height + 70–80% humidity

When to see a vet

Not veterinary advice.

The species

Identity

Adult size

True scale, against a 1.75 m person

1.75 m7–8 cm

Logarithmic, the same axis on every sheet

1520100400 cm
7–8 cmNose to tail, adult

The size the sheet states for a grown animal.

Why

Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.

Order / Family
Orthoptera / Tettigoniidae
Adult size
Large katydid ~7–8 cm
Activity
Nocturnal; arboreal
Temperament
Display; spiny defensive head

Reproduction

Reproduction
Lays eggs in substrate; nymphs need same care

Good to know

  • Its armoured, spiny 'dragon' head is pure bluff: a striking display invert.
  • Its armoured, spiny 'dragon' head is pure bluff — a striking display invert.
Arboreal · warmFrom the sheet: 25–32°C

The way of life is written in this sheet, word for word. The climate words summarise the two figures above them, they do not add to them.

National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

Questions & sources

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https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/eumegalodon-blanchardi

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What this sheet states

69%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 5 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: humidity instrument and audit, enclosure size audit. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 420 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.