Can I keep it?

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Setup

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
24–28°Ambient

One ambient band, 24–28°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 states24-28°C

Humidity

80–90%Target RH

The sheet states80-90% (needs it wetter/warmer)

Part of this is not on the page we cite. We opened it on 10 Aug 2026 and some of the degrees above are not stated there. The values above may still be right, but we cannot show you where they came from, and nobody here has checked them against a second source. Anything about a sick animal goes to a qualified exotic vet, not to a page. en.wikipedia.org

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Day

Drag the sun. Giant Amazonian whip spider is Nocturnal, so what it is doing changes with the light.

Enclosure and conditions

Enclosure

40 cm60 cm
warm hideclimbing branchwatersubstrate
50100150200 cm
40 × 40 × 60 cmWidth × depth × height
16dm² of floor
Warm side: not in our dataUVB: not in our data

Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.

Why

The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».

The sheet states40x40x60 cm TALL for one adult

Substrate
5 cm moist coco; large vertical cork essential
Hides / decor / water
Big vertical cork/bark, water dish; frequent misting

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

Enclosure at least 40 × 40 × 60 cmbecause Enclosure — 40x40x60 cm TALL for one adult
A thermometerbecause Temperature — 24-28°C
A hygrometerbecause Humidity — 80-90% (needs it wetter/warmer)

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.

Food

Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 7 dAs the sheet states
4Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.

The sheet statesCrickets, roaches, large feeders · 1-3 items weekly

Staple food
Crickets, roaches, large feeders
Feeding frequency
1-3 items weekly
Supplements
Not required

Daily life

Behaviour and handling

HandlingHarmless; very long fragile legs: best not handled
CommunalCan be territorial; house singly or with great space
Defense / stress signsFast sideways scuttle, dropping, hiding flat

Health

Common health problems

Common health issues
SignsMismolt without height/humidity; leg loss
Red flags / quarantine
SignsTall, humid setup before molt; reject stuck-leg specimens; QT wild-caught

The species

Identity

Adult size

True scale, against a 1.75 m person

1.75 m4–6 cm

Logarithmic, the same axis on every sheet

1520100400 cm
4–6 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
Amblypygi
IUCN / CITES
IUCN not assessed; CITES not yet in our data
Difficulty
Intermediate
Commonality
Occasional premium import
Adult size
Body ~4-6 cm; leg-span to ~22-28 cm (among the largest)
Lifespan
5-10 years
Growth rate
Slow-medium
Activity & niche
Nocturnal vertical-surface ambush hunter of humid forest
Temperament
Shy, skittish, harmless
Venom / defense
Harmless. NO venom and no sting; long spiny pedipalps

Reproduction

Life course

Day 0Hatch
5–10 yrLifespan in care
5 yrMinimum commitment
Sexual maturityNot in our data

Read from the lifespan and maturity the sheet states, for animals in care and not in the wild.

Why

The minimum commitment is the low end of that lifespan, and the reproductive window is what is left after maturity: both are subtractions on stated figures, not figures of their own.

Reproduction
Oviparous: egg sac under abdomen; young ride the mother's back

Good to know

  • Some Heterophrynus have the longest legs of any amblypygid: nearly 30 cm across
  • Some Heterophrynus have the longest legs of any amblypygid — nearly 30 cm across

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

Back to the Atlas My keep

https://keepr.pet/husbandry/en/heterophrynus-spp-e-g-h-batesii

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What this sheet states

100%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

Every field this product runs on is stated here. That is not a claim that the values are right: it says what the sheet states, not whether it is true. Whether a human has read it is the badge at the top of this page.

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.