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Question: Redness (blood?) on tail's edges after salt bath?

Reibu

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I've followed instructions from the salt bath sticky post after my axie's gills been afflicted with fungus. The fungus went away but redness appeared on the edges of his tail and his whole body went kinda red-ish pink also. I'm not sure what the cause it to prevent it from happening again :(

The axie was put into a normal sized lunch box container and he was in the salt bath for 20 minutes (the guy at the store said the aquarium salt he gave me wasn't strong)

Was the fridge temeprature too high/too low? Maybe too much salt (I put 3 teaspoons for 1 litre container)? Too much de-chlorinator (I used Tetra, less then 5ml for the 1 litre dechlorinator water container)?
 

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It looks like he may have just damaged his tail a little, maybe he thrashed around in the container? It should heal without issue.

As for aquarium salt, as far as I know, there are not different strengths. Salt is salt. Not sure what the guy at the pet shop meant. I think 20 minutes was just a little too long for the soak though, 15 minutes should be the max - but no harm should come of this, this one time. ;)

It is normal for the blood vessels to come more apparent in the fridge. This should return to normal once he's back in his tank.
 

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Thanks Shannon! I just gave him a second salt bath but 15 minutes this time and everything's fine! :)
 
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