Sort of a how-to post, not sure if there is a DIY community that might be more appropriate? Anyway if you want to grow your own alien you can try to follow along with these steps. I gotta warn you though, I haven't been experiencing timeflow in the same linear struggle up stream mode that you humans seem stuck in lately, so this may jump around a bit. It took something of a harmonic convergence for me to even materialize on this blockchain tbh.
Last things first
The creature I grew in a tub
Helpful tip - Make sure the cloacal mouth covers the acid glands before you provide the animating spark!
Toward the beginning
There was this mess in a tub
Before I tweaked the bilateral symmetry properties to bring it more in line with imaginative capabilities of this planet
Somewhere in the middle
Really kind of a beautiful pink flush when I first turned on the hormone regulators