Axolotl floating, very pale.

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My axolotl, she's a small adult I know, has been floating and looking pretty round. She's quite round anyway. She's gone super pale (she's a Leucistic) and her gills aren't looking great.

I've moved her to a big tub because the floor is cooler and I'm doing daily water changes. Water parameters have been fine but I have had a bacteria bloom (in tank not tub). Really worried for her. I've been told to medicate her with meth blue?

She's always had a weird stumpy Gill but it seems like it's spreading? You can see like it going sideways across to her next gill which has only happened recently.
 

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Did you try rinse or soak her with regular tap water for a few minutes? ( chlorine in regular tap water might help kill bacteria ) and salt bath?
Maybe change her tank water 100% with just tap water without dechlorinated along with strong meds that you have for this ( while keeping her in the tub) and let the filter run over night to kill all bacteria in filter, substrate , and tank decor' without completely destroy good bacteria. Then clean tank out the day after , refill it with fresh water again before you put her back in the tank.
 
I've been told to never use non-dechlorinated water for axolotls? I've also been told not to ever do salt baths unless there's a severe fungal infection.

She's currently not in her tank as I cannot get the temperature down enough so all my axolotls are in big tubs on the floor.
She now after being in the fridge is lumpy and has a slight fungal infection on her toes :(


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