Osmosis water without hardening for vampire crabs in the terrarium?

Arthur982ByArthur982

Hello everyone,

I urgently need your help with my terrarium. I have a 60x45x60 Exo Terra with lots of plants, ferns, moss, and I keep Red Devil Vampire Crabs. For some time now, the water in the terrarium has been very calcareous, which is damaging my plants, especially the moss. The plant leaves turn whitish every time I use the sprinkler system. Therefore, I've turned off the sprinkler system for now.

Since I have a raised floor filled with water in my terrarium and a sprinkler system, I'm now considering switching to reverse osmosis water. My question is: Can I use pure reverse osmosis water without any hardening for the sprinkler system and in the water area, or do the crabs need minerals from treated water? Does anyone here have experience keeping vampire crabs without hardening the reverse osmosis water?

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Satiharuu
Satiharuu
5 months ago

You can add calcium differently, by food eg

This is important for the chitin or its tank

The question is whether this gets back so slowly into your "groundwater"

Don't know me specifically with vampire crabs, even though I've read in because I've been thinking about them. Think, osmosis, or distilled water is already preferable, but do not know if necessary

Personally, I wouldn't have upgraded any rainfall. Moss is generally not easy to keep, except for a long-lasting environment. Would it prefer to cultivate in the water part, so it slowly grows to the country.

Your basin is relatively small for a functioning water part. Don't know how to handle this

You could just stretch your water with osmosis water if it should be so enormously calcareous

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