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Hello,
here are some recent shots of wild animals. All specimens which I observed suffer from some kind of fungus but it doesn't seem to be harmful for them.
 

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Hi,
here it is. It is some fungus right ?
j.
 

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The animals look in excellent condition but I would be worried if they were in my tanks with that fungus. To the op , Do they typically have this all year round ? Have you seen any dead ones or read reports of die offs ?
 

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I noticed it on animals in the spring 2016 for first time and I cannot tell if they have it year round because I can observe animals only in the spring and early summer. Later is much more difficult because of dense vegetation.
I havn't seen any specimen in visibly bad condition all of them looked like those on the photo. To me it looks like a "cosmetic" issue. Truly these animals were not very photogenic.
j.
 

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Difficult to tell from the photo, but maybe it is not fungus but a colony of vorticella.
Those often settle on snails, shells, shrimps or crayfish. I haven't seen them colonizing a newt's skin yet, but they can settle on any suitable surface.
 
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