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Solifugae

Camel Spider

Dinorhax rostrumpsittaciแมงมุมอูฐ

Photograph: khalebyordan · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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Drag the sun. Camel Spider is nocturnal, so what it is doing changes with the light.

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Temperature24–27°C
Adult size~3–5 cm

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
24–27°Ambient

One ambient band, 24–27°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 states24-27 °C.

Identity

Adult size

1.75 m3–5 cm
1520100400 cm
3–5 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
Solifugae (sun/camel spider)
Adult size
~3–5 cm
Activity
Nocturnal; extremely fast predator
Temperament
Aggressive, delicate, short-lived: experts only

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
26–32 °C
Humidity
Low, with a damp corner
Min. enclosure
Small, escape-proof, secure lid
Substrate
Sand/soil mix + hides

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.

Diet

Staple food
Voracious insectivore — crickets, roaches
Feeding frequency
Frequent — high metabolism

Behaviour and handling

HandlingNever: fast, bites, fragile
CommunalNo: cannibalistic
NoteNot venomous but powerful jaws

Reproduction

Reproduction
Rarely bred in captivity

Common health problems

Dehydration / stress
Signsshort natural lifespan, hard to keep
Preventstable warmth + feeders + humidity corner; expect challenges

When to see a vet

Not veterinary advice.

Good to know

  • Not a true spider and not venomous: but one of the fastest arthropod predators alive.
  • Not a true spider and not venomous — but one of the fastest arthropod predators alive.

What it needs

A thermometerbecause temp24-27 °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.

Sources

Others in this group

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 421 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.