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Illness/Sickness: Fungus on Gills

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So Im not sure why she has fungus on her gills but I noticed it this morning. She did poop in her tank which is 1 gallon tank last night (keeping her in there until the 10 gallon tank cycles) so I put her in fresh spring water and put an ice pack in there. This morning there was fungus everywhere. I immediately emptied the water and put her in cold spring water for a little until I could put salt in a seperate container. Ive given her 2 salt baths today and it still looks the same.
Her First Salt Bath was at 1:12 - 1:20PM (in photo)
Her second salt bath was at 8:49 PM- 8:59 PM and i took pictures at 9:49 PM after putting her in spring water again so there wasnt fungus sticking to her.
I would give her a tea bath to soothe her coat but I dont even know how. After 2 years of owning 4 axolotls I havent ever gave any of them a tea bath cause there was no need to since they never had skin irritation.

BTW in the first photo its fungus floating around the tank its not her slime coat
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 0
Nitrite:0
General Hardness: 0
Carbonate Hardness: 40
pH: 6.0
Temperature: 12C 53F
 

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