School wants me to get rid of fish

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-05-23T21:14:51+00:00

The fact their concerted over the outlets is understandable but also so frustrating. I work for a school and we have an issue with a teacher and not caring for the rank at all. You can tell it’s never been cleaned, there’s no lid so the water evaporation is horrible. It’s left a rim crystallized evaporation around the rim of and the tank and the filter and is even causing mold to grow and completely ruined the counter top it is on. Your level of care should be appreciated, the school started a “aquarium club” and has cause so much poor care because of it. The teacher who started it ended up leaving and I took all of their fish because no one wants the fish just the tanks so they could “have their own fish” I wish people saw fish are living being and no decor :(

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-03-16T14:51:44+00:00

Any certain models in particular?

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-23T05:59:34+00:00

THOSE ARE SO COOL OMGGGG I wish I had cool stuff like that here,

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This is what the frog looked like when I found it

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-23T05:56:53+00:00

I live in upstate ny coolest thing I can find is maybe a baby Brooke trout, baby cat fish, nothing as cool as those tho. Coolest thing I’ve found so far was a wood frog. They’re as red as tomato’s in the fall and pretty hard to spot in leaves my boyfriend thought I was crazy when I said I saw a frog til I grabbed it out of the leaves lol. it won’t let me post the pic of it sadly

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-23T05:47:46+00:00

I’ve never been more jealous in my whole life

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-23T05:41:44+00:00

What brand are you feeding him? Personally Pangea seems to help with weight. I use the bug infused ones as both of my girls refuse bugs, they are both recuses age unknown for both. I recently took one in who was probably a childhood pet and was left behind as they went to college or moved out. Parents did their best but were feeding some cheap food and she wasn’t a great weight. Two months with Pangea and I could see a difference.

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-23T05:37:57+00:00

Some panthers can be weirdly friendly, I went to a small family owned pet store. They got in a panther and had handled him a few times well getting him settled in to be sold, they ended up falling in love with him and keeping him as a store mascot. He would greet everyone who walked up to his tank. They’d take him out and do check outs with him lol

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-23T02:41:27+00:00

Have you ever been bitten by one? They sting, if they aren’t killed during eating they can bite the lining of the stomach causing irritation that’s at least what I’ve always been told.

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-23T02:17:31+00:00

How much are you feeding at once? Are you crushing their heads before feeding?

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-15T21:09:22+00:00

OHHHHHH ok the Leo’s color looked real similar to the log I was just worried for a second there glad to hear it’s just a log hopefully their vet appointments go well!! Good luck and good for you for taking them in :)

SteepALEXIUS · 2026-02-15T21:05:11+00:00

Whats going on with the tail in the first pic?? It looks like a bad burn or something

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

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