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I have had my little guy for about a month, and he's around 7 months old. One of his gills has always seemed to be missing filaments on one side, but the breeder didn't mention any medical issues so I thought it was benign. Now today it seems a larger cottony looking growth has appeared I believe is fungus. I'm attaching photos of his gill. Please help, thank you!
 

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Yep. Definitely looks like fungus. Poor little guy! There's lots of resources on here for ways to get rid of the fungus. Once you've eradicated the fungus, the filaments should grow back.
 
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First - check your water parameters, since if ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate are high, that can cause fungus. Sometimes you can avoid salt/tea baths by simply improving the water quality. Particularly, some breeders have noted that when nitrates get high, they start seeing fungus.

Second, you are in Ohio too, and some parts of Ohio have very hard water and some of us have water conditioners to take out calcium. I noticed that when I started filing the tanks with part-unsoftened water, I stopped having occasional little-bits of gill fungus. (Axolotls need calcium.) Note: correlation does not prove causation. :)
 
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Thank you both very much for the answers you were very helpful. I've been doing regular wayer parameter checks and necessary maintainence, but I believe the fungus actually came from his previous housing, it was never incredibly noticeable due to size but in old photos from the breeder he did appear to be missing filaments on his troubled gill. I've given him one salt bath so far and plan to keep up with them to eliminate fungus, he seemed a bit startled at first but was overall very well receptive to the salt bath, doesn't appear stressed or have any loss of appetite.
 
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