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Illness/Sickness: White residue on fb newt

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Hello everyone, my FB newt has a white residue all over his body? I recently bought a fake plant for his tank but the plant made the water sort of slimy so I took it out while cleaning the tank. My newt at the time looked like he had some sort or slime on him but I didn't think anything of it. Today he looks as if he has dried salt all over him? what should I do? i'm not sure if the plant and the white residue have anything in common but guessing they must. thanks in advance
 
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When you took out the plant, did you change the water? If not, do so now. Move the newt temporarily to a secure container with wet paper toweling.
 
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I changed the water immediately. currently he is in a 3.5 gallon hospital tank with about 4 inches of water a land area and a cup what should I do?
 
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Does he still look sick? I was thinking that the residue might be shedding skin, but I don't know.

Maybe change the water again, just to be sure you got rid of whatever was in it. If he is a solo newt (no tankmates) you might as well put him back in his regular tank.
 
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well he is swimming a round quite normally and eating too i dont think its shedding skin because from what ive seen it usually just looks like black muck coming off them, but i will put him back in his usual tank after i get a chance to do a very through cleaning. the white stuff however is still there, should i just wait for it to wash away or shed away? the only think i was worried about was the fact that it may make skin breathing (forget the name) harder although it doesn't appear to
 
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A bit of a long shot here, but could this be part of his breeding colours?
 

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hmm i dont think so i have had him about 9 years and his only other tank mate was a male and i have never seen this before :p thanks though!
 
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