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Illness/Sickness: Possible Fungus?

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I came into my bedroom today to find my axolotls had white fluffy fungusy looking stuff on their gills. I posted a picture of one of them attached here but there's much less on them because he swam around really fast and a lot of it flew off.

They are in a cycled 55 gallon tank. I've had them both for almost two months now and there's never been a problem until now. They are both around 5 inches.

GH: 30 KH: 40 PH: 7.0 Nitrite: 0.5 Nitrate 20

The only thing I can think is I passed out exhausted the other night and never turned their tank lights off so it was on for atleast 16 hours straight. Please help I'm worried about the little guys :(
 

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I've seen this before; it looks like white beard algae; kind of wispy and mucusy?

When I've seen that it seems to be skin sloughing off. The feathery bits in their gills sloughing off due to stress or minor injury?

Not 100% sure, but when my Lotls have had that a couple times it seems to go away on its own.

If they're eating as normal and not showing other symptoms I wouldn't worry too much :)


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Speaking of mucusy, beard algae-looking debris... Here's some on my Axolotl today!

What do you guys think?
Difficult to see; very wispy and white. But definitely think, mucusy stuff


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