Aphonopelma mooreae — Fact Sheet

Aphonopelma mooreae · Aphonopelma mooreae

📋 At a glance

🏠 Enclosure

• Use the enclosure dimensions, heating, humidity, and safety values from the structured care profile and full care guide.

🪨 Enclosure furniture

• 12 cm of compacted coco fibre, unfertilised soil, or a stable soil/clay mix
• Partly buried cork hide that the spider can deepen or seal
• Shallow water dish and one lightly moisture-buffered corner
• Simple, stable decor with no tall branches, heavy stones, or claw-catching mesh
• Keep open height low to reduce abdominal injury from a fall

💡 Lighting

• No UVB or specialist lighting required; a normal room day-night cycle is sufficient
• Keep display or plant lighting indirect and away from the enclosure lid
• Photoperiod: 10-12 h of ambient light; no night light
• Avoid heat-producing lamps that create a hot, dry patch above the hide

🌡️ Temperature

• Basking spot: 23-27 °C
• Warm zone: 21-27 °C
• Cool zone: 20-23 °C
• Night: 18-22 °C

💧 Humidity & water

• Target 50-65% humidity, with fresh water available in a shallow dish at all times
• Keep the surface dry to moderately dry; overflow the dish or dampen one corner when needed
• Keep small spiderlings in smaller ventilated containers with a lightly moist corner
• During premolt, increase only local moisture toward 65-75%; leave a dry area available
• Do not keep the whole enclosure wet; prevent persistent condensation, mold, and mites

🪳 Feeding

• Feed according to the prey type and schedule in the structured care profile; remove uneaten prey promptly.

🩺 Health — warning signs

• Watch for appetite loss, abnormal posture, injury, breathing issues, failed shedding or molting, and sustained weight loss.