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Socotra Island Blue Baboon
Monocentropus balfouri
★★★★★4.9 · 44 reviews
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About this spider
Soft blue-grey with golden carapace and one of the few genuinely communal tarantulas. Faster and defensive, but a fascinating, beautiful old-world species.
Quick specs
- Adult leg span
- 11–13 cm
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Temperament
- Defensive
- Type
- Fossorial (burrowing)
- Natural range
- Socotra Island, Yemen
- Lifespan (female)
- 12–15 years (F)
Care snapshot
- Humidity
- 55–65%
- Temperature
- 24–28°C
- Enclosure
- Fossorial, webs heavily, communal-capable
- Diet
- Crickets, roaches
This specimen ships with a digital certificate confirming legitimate, captive-bred origin and documented husbandry.
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