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I hope this is something someone has seen.
I'm a first time axolotl owner. My boy (i assume) came to me adult, 9 inches, a few months ago. He was shedding slime at the time, just tons of goo, and quickly developed what I thought was fungus on his front foot which spread quickly to his back feet and gills.
I tried a black tea bath (reddit suggestion), which helped with his gooey slime issue, and salt baths (facebook), which rid him of the fuzz on his gills and back feet. This bit on his front foot was still in place and growing larger. I took these pictures today, and as I was trying to get my phone to focus on his foot, he jerked it away from me, and the whole thing (the growth) came off. I will be showing it to my vet as soon as they can fit me in, but idk how long that will be.
The growth is peach colored. The base, where it connected to his foot, is whiteish-yellow, and seems solid. (the hole in the center is where his finger bone was.) It is the texture (the base) of chicken cartilage after cooking. The orangey-peach colored outer part is fibrous, with a texture akin to dry plant roots or very thin twigs, or coarse doll hair. It is durable, not at all the cottony goo that I expected from fungus pics online.
He is active (normal amount, not always swimming just moves around a bit). He plays in his plants. He wouldn't eat when I first got him, but since the salt baths he has been eating 3 red wigglers a day. He has relaxed gills. He spends time at the top, middle, and bottom of the tank, and by all appearances is healthy.
The tank is 61F, with .02 ammonia, 6.8ph, 80Kh, nitrates 15ppm. Nitrites however are high, at 3ppm. I have been doing partial water changes and using seachem prime in an effort to correct this. He has a sponge filter, and prior to this growth his tank was in parameters, with the nitrite spike occurring after the growth began (I test daily ever since the tea bath, was testing weekly before that).
I have tried searching with google lens and only gotten sea anemonies. I have tried googling descriptions and can't find anything like it.
PLEASE HELP. I haven't had him long, but I love this little guy and I don't want him to die!
I'm a first time axolotl owner. My boy (i assume) came to me adult, 9 inches, a few months ago. He was shedding slime at the time, just tons of goo, and quickly developed what I thought was fungus on his front foot which spread quickly to his back feet and gills.
I tried a black tea bath (reddit suggestion), which helped with his gooey slime issue, and salt baths (facebook), which rid him of the fuzz on his gills and back feet. This bit on his front foot was still in place and growing larger. I took these pictures today, and as I was trying to get my phone to focus on his foot, he jerked it away from me, and the whole thing (the growth) came off. I will be showing it to my vet as soon as they can fit me in, but idk how long that will be.
The growth is peach colored. The base, where it connected to his foot, is whiteish-yellow, and seems solid. (the hole in the center is where his finger bone was.) It is the texture (the base) of chicken cartilage after cooking. The orangey-peach colored outer part is fibrous, with a texture akin to dry plant roots or very thin twigs, or coarse doll hair. It is durable, not at all the cottony goo that I expected from fungus pics online.
He is active (normal amount, not always swimming just moves around a bit). He plays in his plants. He wouldn't eat when I first got him, but since the salt baths he has been eating 3 red wigglers a day. He has relaxed gills. He spends time at the top, middle, and bottom of the tank, and by all appearances is healthy.
The tank is 61F, with .02 ammonia, 6.8ph, 80Kh, nitrates 15ppm. Nitrites however are high, at 3ppm. I have been doing partial water changes and using seachem prime in an effort to correct this. He has a sponge filter, and prior to this growth his tank was in parameters, with the nitrite spike occurring after the growth began (I test daily ever since the tea bath, was testing weekly before that).
I have tried searching with google lens and only gotten sea anemonies. I have tried googling descriptions and can't find anything like it.
PLEASE HELP. I haven't had him long, but I love this little guy and I don't want him to die!