Quote Originally Posted by John911 View Post
Not at all. I went to a reptile show and saw a guy keeping them in just water and he said they were perfectly fine that way. So i put him in a bit of water and then started just feeding him fish. Seemed to be ok until one day I came home and it was on its back. Regardless of the water, i kept him in moss before that, and I'm not sure what kind of heating it had. I was very ignorant.

Don't worry we all made some kind of mistake when starting out. My first pacman I kept it on gravel substrate and a hugeg heatmat that covers whole underside of tank. Think it made it for over a month before passing on.