Illness/Sickness: Axolotl out of aquarium

[Zoy]

Anyone use WATERLIFE Nova+ natural tea tree remedy?

Hi, I fitted a aquarium timer feeder to the top of my tank, unfortunately I had to move part of the hood to do this. There was a space uncovered less than a CD size.
Came back from a day trip to find axolotl on carpet. Put it straight back into aquarium.
He shed his skin but seemed to grow it back.
Now though he has cottony fungus, like a beard, on his belly and on his back which got damaged in his fall.
Went to pet shop, I bought him from and they recommended an aquarium tea tree medicine.
It's WATERLIFE Nova+ natural tea tree remedy.
Has anyone used this?
Have similar experience and share their information so that our axoltl has the best chance of recovery.
Thanks in advance.

 

[eggdropsoup]

I haven't ever used that, but tea tree oil is helpful in treating minor fungal infections on us humans. Not sure about it's interaction with axies though. Make sure it does not contain clove oil as an ingredient.

Caudata Culture Articles - Salt Solutions in Treating Salamanders This may be of interest to you.

From link:

Skin Mycosis
Skin fungal infections can occur in contaminated wounds, but are usually occur as a result of very poor husbandry conditions and in very stressed, immune suppressed animals. The skin has tufts of grey or white filaments. Recommended salt concentrations vary widely. I have only had one animal with skin fungus, a mutant axolotl that also had other problems. In addition to treatment, the habitat should be disinfected and remade. A quarantine habitat should be used until treatment is complete. This type of treatment is easiest to use for aquatic animals. Concentrations of salt up to 25 grams/liter have been used for brief treatments. Use the lowest effective salt concentration. Getting a terrestrial salamander to submerge in a salt solution voluntarily can be a big problem.

In a clean bowl mix a hypertonic saline solution. The key feature is a final amount of 6 gm/Liter NaCl (sodium chloride)

Place animal in the hypertonic saline for not more than 30 minutes.

Wearing examination gloves, gently remove fungus

Place in clean normal artifical pond water.

This can be repeated on several successive days, or every other day, for tenacious infections.

I would give the saline bath a try. I can also tell you that API's Pimafix is not worth trying.

 

[auntiejude]

Please don't use a salt bath. Try a tea bath or cattappa leaves instead - what you're seeing is dry skin flaking off, not fungus.

 

[Zoy]

Thanks for replying, I ended up ringing waterlife. They put me through to speak to a chemist.
They hadn't tested the product on axolotls but had tested on frogs and recommended I use 75% of the recommended dosage. Thoroughly recommend the customer service.
Unfortunately we buried scampy, yesterday. Relieved he isn't suffering anymore.
Sally his tank mate is enjoying her new bigger tank, I bought, having separated them due to scampys ill-fated leap.:sad::sad:

 

[Donna001]

So sorry to hear the sad news about Scampy.