@Mariah: Oh honey I am so sorry! I didn't mean to "make you" look wrong or anything. Normally when I contradict something someone else writes, I send them a PM making sure I didn't offend or anything. I didn't send you one this time because I didn't even think further than my own nose, basically. I am so, so sorry - I have never seen you write anything bad or inadvisable. My problem is with salt per se. It is a very aggressive chemical and I only meant that the axolotl is improving and salt baths are a harsh treatment and increasing that now might complicate rather than alleviate the situation.
@Seona: Yes, iodine is bad. I can't explain it, partly because I only know the words in German and mainly because I don't really understand the inner workings of it all, but apparently iodine has something to do with the hormone-producing gland that stimulates metamorphosis in "normal" amphibians or salamanders or whatall.
Here in Germany we have a kind of salt used for dishwashers. It is pure NaCl (Natrium Chloride, or "salt"), the difference to table salt being that table salt has an additive that keeps it from clumping. So then we have table salt (with only the anti-clumping additive), iodized salt, and iodized flouride salt. Obviously none of these would be desirable for a salt bath due to the additives. (See how I skip around explaining why not
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I don't know anything about this "marine salt" because I have the dishwasher salt which is perfect, so I don't know what is in the aq. salt. One would assume it is pure NaCl? (And probably very expensive.)
Ok I have drifted off into ramblings. I really just wanted to apologize to Mariah, and tried to make that not too off-topic.
-Eva