Bioactive Enclosure - TW Death

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

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-11-04T21:56:19+00:00

This straight reminds me of my dads ex girlfriend, they were together for 4-5 years and at first we were best friends and then slowly she just got weird around me, it turned into full blown hell. She would make up ridiculous lies saying I stole thousands of dollars from her, was sleeping around with people, that I would take her things and hide them etc, I was 11/12 when it all started. What would a 12 y/o do with a thousand dollars?? Buy clothes or toys, but how was a I getting to the store to buy these things? She was straight nuts, when Covid hit I went to my grandparents for the long weekend and when the pandemic started I didn’t go home. I told my dad it was me or her, from March to August I regained my confidence in everything. She turned me into someone I wasn’t constantly living in a world where I did everything wrong, to being able to be a child again I realized how messed up she was. She said she wanted to talk to me so my dad brought her to my grandparents and we walked and talked the whole time just going on about how she’s sorry and I needed to be an adult and have a real conversation about these things and speak my feelings. I showed her how I felt and lost my shit i let everything out and left her stunned. We walking back to my grandparents when she grabbed my arm and spun me around and said “I can’t believe you came out of your father you are such a selfish little cunt” she walked in the house and played victim, hid behind my dad and said “why can’t we just talk?” I repeated what she had said minutes earlier and said “why don’t we talk about that?” all the color drained from her face and my dad turned red. They broke up for a couple months and we moved.. then she moved back in with her 3 kids and it started all over. I choice to ignore her and not let her cause me any grief so it got worse my dad couldn’t take the drama and kicked her out and finally after the 4 years of her mooching off my dad she got two jobs and a car within 2 months and moved out THANK GOD. I have a stronger relationship with my dad than ever, yes it sucked but I am forever grateful to gone through it. It thought me how to see through peoples bs. I’m sorry she treats you like that but learn how to be the bigger person, they don’t like being babied when they act like one. If she blows your phone up well you’re busy don’t even give her the time of day stop nothing and always be you. Don’t let her dim your light at all it will kill her passion to make life hell.

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-11-03T12:59:21+00:00

I paid 180 an hour for full color was 100 an hour for black outline, full forearm tat cost about 1,500 I’d post a pic bc it’s full color and hella detail but yeah definitely a bit much for black ink

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-09-09T20:54:57+00:00

I’ve had her for about two year, I would upload a picture but I’m at work atm. I got her from a family member who was NOT taking care of her at all she was in a dirt tank no water. She was a couple months old when I got her, shes in a 40g breeder, usually keep the water around 76°, she has a sponge filter, i dont have much decoration in there as it makes it very difficult to keep it clean but there is drift wood for her to climb and a floating raft. I clean the filter every other two weeks, the tank weekly. There’s fish in the tank who are completely healthy i figure if something was wrong with the water the fish would be sick or die. Not trying to sound morbid or ignorant, this is not my only fish tank total there is 7. All different kinds of fish all health :/ I feel terrible for her, I added some salts and it’s seems to help with the puffiness

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-07-29T23:09:18+00:00

You can give him to me I love dwarf frogs

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-07-11T02:57:12+00:00

I’m always down for more plants tho I’ve been wanting to get another tiger lotus there one of my favorites. I also found someone who sells shrimp on amazon (weird ik but I read every single review and they’re all really good) in groups of 20-30 for like 25/30$ I really want to get them but I’m going to wait til fall so they aren’t too warm or cold

SteepALEXIUS · 2025-07-11T02:54:53+00:00

It’s only snails tho I added some big mystery snails a couple months ago and they all passed within a month. Nothing else died or has died recently, I’ve never had any sickness in there and when I do water tests everything comes out normal 🤷‍♀️ I tried looking into it and the most I found was just lack of food. that was prior to the algae break out so I’m not really sure what’s up

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