Fungus on gills

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Hi! Just the yesterday I noticed my axolotl had some fluffy white fungus on her gill. I know to give her salt baths so that's what I did--2 liters of water with 2 teaspoons of salt for 10 min, then put her back in clean water. Today when I looked at it I noticed there were some black specks on it as well (see picture, it's her top gill with the fungus and specks). Is this good or bad?
Also when I went to give her another salt bath today I noticed in her fresh water bin that she was in that there was an odd stringy bright orange clump of something, what is that? I've never seen anything like that, should I be concerned? Unfortunately I didn't think to take a picture of that too. Thank you for any info you can provide!!

Edit: there was more orange stuff so I took a couple pictures. I'm thinking it might just be weird looking poop?
 

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First salt baths are harsh you are better off to use low dose all the time or make and use johns or holtfreters.

the weird finding would have been poop or vomit.
 
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