White fungus on gills?

So a few weeks ago I moved my axolotl into a 40 breeder (upgrade from 10gallon). I was going to let it cycle on it's own, and had it sit for about a week before I got impatient and bought Seachem "Stability-New Tank Stabilization System." I used it as directed and water cleared up immediately and was good to go. I have a bio-wheel filter with 2 cartridges in it right now, it's up to 50 gallons. I added a bath scrubber/loofa to the filter to soften the water flow.

Yesterday my axolotl was doing a lot of climbing on decorations. He was up in the plants, up on the driftwood... This is unusual for him.

Last night I noticed a white cloudy what I believe is fungus on one of his gills. I vaguely recognize it from reading about it here on the forums but cannot find that thread again.

I have a busy day today so I cannot get my water parameters right now, but if someone knows of a solution off of the top of their head it would be appreciated. I will post my parameters later when I get the chance.

Thanks folks, I'm worried about my little guy.

Water changes, water changes and more water changes until you can get some parameters and hopefully a photo of your Axie and the white cloudy stuff ?

Hope to help more later ..... :happy:

Wow, sorry it's been a while. I still haven't been able to check my parameters, but after posting I had an "AHA!" moment. The weather has changed drastically in the last week, and I noticed that his tank temp was up to 70F. I took off the glass hood and increased the bubbler's air pressure to get some surface movement on the water. By doing that and leaving it that way I'm able to keep a consistent 65F. I also added 8TBSP of aquarium salt. (As directed on box). With these changes, the fungus fell off of his gill. Unfortunately, it took the gill filaments with it, so he has one bald gill. I'm just glad it didn't spread anywhere else on him. He's not moving around much, preferring to stay next to the filter intake, but he still ate his worm yesterday so I'm not super worried. I took 90% of the decor and plants out of his tank to clean them leaving him with two hiding spots near where he prefers to stay lately.

Doing water changes here is difficult because our water is so high in chlorine it's disgusting. I always struggled with getting water where I need it, even with dechlorinator and letting it sit overnight. Our family friend and plumber also said that the water is so high in chlorine that he recommended we get some sort of filter or something for our personal water supply.

I usually only try to do water changes if I have an ammonia spike because of this. I have plenty of live plants that gobble up ammonia so I've had pretty good luck with that.

Glad to hear the fungus has cleared

Perhaps you'll need to do water change anyway to get rid of the salt now. Keep a really close watch on your water quality so the little guy can grow back some gills too.

They say that chlorine evaporates if you leave the water to stand, maybe if you have a spare large bucket, you could prepare your water weekly and let it stand longer ?? That together with the dechlorinator might work (I bought a couple of 5g buckets and keep them filled & dechlorinated ready to go but don't know if you've got space to do same).

Let us know how you get on .....