Hello!
My albino axolotl isn't looking so well. I feed her nightcrawlers everyday, and usually she'll munch on the until she's full, but approximately a week and a half ago she stopped eating her worms completely, and of course I panicked, I searched the web and did a large amount of research. With the information I had gathered I inspected her, and I realized that her tail was extremely red, and appeared as if it was almost disappearing, not to mention that her tail also had these weird white cloudy spots on it and there's also this black stuff on her tail too like scars or something. She's had an injury on her tail before, and a bit of it is missing (i'll circle it in red so you don't get confused). She also has yellow spots on her body, but I think thats normal in an albino axolotl though. I tested her water, and the results were:
pH = 6.8 - 7.0
Ammonia = 0ppm
Nitrite = 0ppm
Nitrate = 40ppm-80ppm
From what i've read they're basically the expected levels. I make sure she is in a dark room as axolotls are annoyed by light, especially my axolotl.
I don't know what to do, I think it might be a fungus of sorts, and I might give her a salt bath. But I absolutely want to make sure that i'm 100% right, because I don't want to put her in a salt bath and traumatize her for no reason.
I really need help!
(just copy and paste these image links in a new tab, I can't figure out how to link them)
https://imgur.com/Cs7f1dP
https://imgur.com/EFBCK35
https://imgur.com/XEx7maV
https://imgur.com/zvv2bTI
https://imgur.com/hKtvuFL
https://imgur.com/a6dlFdF
https://imgur.com/eC1VYy6
https://imgur.com/kDvWemL
My albino axolotl isn't looking so well. I feed her nightcrawlers everyday, and usually she'll munch on the until she's full, but approximately a week and a half ago she stopped eating her worms completely, and of course I panicked, I searched the web and did a large amount of research. With the information I had gathered I inspected her, and I realized that her tail was extremely red, and appeared as if it was almost disappearing, not to mention that her tail also had these weird white cloudy spots on it and there's also this black stuff on her tail too like scars or something. She's had an injury on her tail before, and a bit of it is missing (i'll circle it in red so you don't get confused). She also has yellow spots on her body, but I think thats normal in an albino axolotl though. I tested her water, and the results were:
pH = 6.8 - 7.0
Ammonia = 0ppm
Nitrite = 0ppm
Nitrate = 40ppm-80ppm
From what i've read they're basically the expected levels. I make sure she is in a dark room as axolotls are annoyed by light, especially my axolotl.
I don't know what to do, I think it might be a fungus of sorts, and I might give her a salt bath. But I absolutely want to make sure that i'm 100% right, because I don't want to put her in a salt bath and traumatize her for no reason.
I really need help!
(just copy and paste these image links in a new tab, I can't figure out how to link them)
https://imgur.com/Cs7f1dP
https://imgur.com/EFBCK35
https://imgur.com/XEx7maV
https://imgur.com/zvv2bTI
https://imgur.com/hKtvuFL
https://imgur.com/a6dlFdF
https://imgur.com/eC1VYy6
https://imgur.com/kDvWemL