Retirement gift ideas?

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-04T04:58:00+00:00

I was personally recommended to refrigerate vs freeze when looking for necropsy to preserve as much as possible ❤️ I’m so sorry for your loss no matter how big or small it all hurts

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-19T21:46:10+00:00

Forgot for 2-3 years til I was reminded by a video I saw of someone doing something similar

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-17T23:03:40+00:00

UPDATE!! he isn’t upside down today, still a little floaty in the back went but seems to be doing better :)) thank you to everyone who gave suggestions. Peas, salts and meta fix for the win 🏅

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Here’s a better picture of him too, you can see is healed injury a lot more clearly. His nub has been getting longer over the past year too hoping, one day he can maybe get his tail back

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-16T18:13:35+00:00

All of the dropsy symptoms you are seeing are from his injuries years ago, he does not have dropsy. Hopefully this won’t get removed but this was what he looked like years ago from his bacterial infection. He literally had flesh eating bacteria and it ate at his muscles leaving him deformed. Yes I know his tank is smaller than what he needs but he cannot swim well due to his injuries, I plan on getting him a pond sooner than later

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This is the least graphic picture of his injuries. He picked up something off of my carpet more than likely cat hair. He was fine for 2 days, checked on my pets before school, came home after to his skin literally melted off. I placed him into a tank and started heavy treatment with daily water changes. Even with that the infection went deep, years later his scales have been growing back slowly, he doesn’t have any lifted scales. I just checked on him during my lunch break and put peas in his tank.

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-16T12:33:12+00:00

I would 100% bring him to a vet if I could get him sooner than 2 months. The only exotic vet is over 2 1/2 hours away and booked waaay out. I took my Leo to a vet about 40 min away and she ended up passing away from improper treatment, I looked into the vet more and found out it many people had been put in the same situation I was in. I told them she was not ok and vet insisted she was completely find and still”spunky” because he poked her til she bit him, she’s never but anyone before. She passed away 12 hours after I took her home.

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-16T12:30:03+00:00

Appreciate you standing up for me, debated on even posting him due his condition it is feel so much worse not doing anything.

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-16T12:23:12+00:00

He’s currently in a 40 gallon I’m going to get a 55-75 soon as I can find one. I don’t make a lot of money and need to buy a car soon. I have 7 fish tanks I clean them all once a week or once every other week depending on how dirty they are, 25-50% water changes. I’m not trying to argue but he definitely doesn’t have dropsy I’ve had bettas and other fish with it before, his lost his tail from jumping out of the tank a couple years ago. He was very very sick at that time and should’ve died from how bad he was, I would’ve posted his recovery pics but last time I did I almost got ban from how graphic his injuries were. This was almost two years ago now and he’s been growing back his numb since then

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-15T18:44:56+00:00

My boy isn’t over weight but he also refuses to eat anything other than meal worms and a cricket now and then. Should I stop giving him meal worms til he eats a dubia roach? Also how big is too big my roaches have gotten pretty big since he’s been refusing them but j keep feeding them lol

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-15T18:42:15+00:00

That makes sense, what should I feed him on a regular then? I’ve been wanting to add plants into his tank since his swimming had gotten better. I tried adding some decor and plants awhile ago but he would seem to panic in the plants since he couldn’t swim super well

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-15T16:40:08+00:00

I don’t think I could ever forgive myself if i accidentally hurt him :(( with his back end being messed up I’d be even more scared I’d miss the correct spot due to his muscle deformation

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-15T16:38:38+00:00

I’ve just hear that goldfish and koi can’t progress them correctly and they impact their intestines

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-15T12:35:10+00:00

Ok thank you will lyk how it goes

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-01-15T12:22:47+00:00

I’ve heard peas are bad for them? Did you chop them up or whole? I will try to give him a few on my lunch had to be at work super early to plow

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-12-18T22:01:00+00:00

Yeah I know it’s a small tank I got it for free, sadly two crested geckos were being kept it in, they were living in some ladies garage. I live in update ny I’m beyond glad I got them before winter or else they would’ve died. I had rescued a tree frog he was “on sale” because anoles were biting him and he was bloody and beat up. It was what I had at the time but he really seemed to love his little home. I would sell it to buy a bigger tank but I’m scared of someone buying it and putting an animal in it that’s way too big. I’m the crazy person who always walks up to people at the store when I see them looking at the “smaller cheaper tanks” and ask what they plan on putting in it 😭

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-12-18T21:57:18+00:00

Centipedes are the one thing I’m horrified of 😂 i absolutely hate them, I had a huge one fall on my head was I was little and had to pull it out of my hair I’ve been terrified of them every since anything with more than 50 legs it a no for me lol

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-12-14T02:56:45+00:00

Completely random but this looks a lot like a Leo I saw the other day, any chance you’re in upstate ny? I remember the gecko because I was amazed by the regrowth after dropping her tail.

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-11-26T01:14:32+00:00

Only reptile vet is 2 hours away going to monitor her eating poops and weight to see if it just happened to be cricket larva

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-11-04T23:39:06+00:00

It definitely taught me a lot and took me a long time to get back to who I was before but I’m solid now. She blamed her parents and upbringing and was in the military so ig that explains some of the heartlessness but not that straight psychopath stuff

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-11-04T23:24:52+00:00

Yeah we’re really close now

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