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>You can get away with providing a (large) water dish since they only need it for moulting and breeding but if you have a decent area they will forage and scavenge in there
Sounds a bit like my current setup with my frog. If that is their essential setup for a water source I think I will be able to keep up as I already know how sort out humidity and temps for vivariums.
>people recommend putting a little bit of effort in and doing a proper paludarium and then you'll see more natural behaviours. They will eat floating plants and mosses if you let them
To be fair that does sound quite cool. I will try to have a look at paludarium water management and feasibility with my current setup, but as long as it is not as complex as trying to regulate a fish tank I think I can pull it off.
>In terms of getting a hold of them in the UK a lot of places sell them fairly cheap, they're actually on a site I've used for ordering before: https://www.tropco.co.uk/-p-3181.html though I don't think this is a "true" vampire crab as I think those are Geosesarma Dennerle.
That's not a bad price compared to some of the other listings I have found so far. Nice colouration too!