Fungus toes?

[teesha]

I have been quarentining my little new fella (twirl, orbie or Squish) And i noticed there were some red sand granules (i assume blood stained from an injury) and fungus around the toes, the toes have rotted so they are shorter-prob due to the fungus. I think it has stressed trying to grip the glass or something?
I immediately did a 75% water change. I have a bare tank with about a handful of sand and large pebbles in there, it's only a quarentine tank so i didn;t want to go all out. There is zeolite in the tank coz i am not concerned with cycling it. I change 30% every second day or so, i'm very busy and i try my best to do it daily.
I've added 2 tsp salt for the whole tank which is about 30 Lt. Then i aso (just under) doubled the hardness. This shoudl help with the fungus somewhat i assume.
Now i have it somewhere, but again to busy to look. What concentration is the salt bath? 1tsp per Lt ? for 10 mins twice a day? Should i pop her in the fridge too?
thanks all.
i only hope i have room in my fridge!

 

[teesha]

She got better after the treatment i did, just bumping up the thread....She seemed to stop getting better...and there is practically no more fluffyness, its either a slight amount of fluff or a thick slime coating....The toes seemed to have grew back wrong, but i'm sure thats ok! Say the quartentine is up, should i then move her back in with my present axy? Or will that pass the fungus? Should i move her back when all symptoms are gone? or do i have to wait say a week of no symptoms?

 

[teesha]

quarentine is over and im wondering if i should put her back with my other axolotl, she still has small amounts of fungus from scratching at the sides and bottom of the bare tank (she moves the sand away). i cant add any more sand or else my other one might have the same reaction ( asim adding her substrate to my new axolotls tank) . what should i do?

 

[Ed]

Is she still has fungus then the quarantine is not up. As long as the animal is sick then the quarantine period is still ongoing...

Ed

 

[Kaysie]

You should go get more substrate.

 

[teesha]

i put more substrate from trekies home in her tank, i was only worried i would create the problem in her tank. The quarentine tank was small so that didn't help.
Today about 2 months of quarentine i took a good look at her toes. There was no sign of fungus, but it wasn't 100% healed (maybe 98%), only one toe had blood on it. I took the risk and popped her in with my Trekky as i believe this environment was best and easiest for me to care for them both.
So far so good. I know that Trekky won't catch it as she has no cuts. I did add some salts and a bit more water hardener to give them both a boost. (only to the water change so it was gradual.)