Maybe a fungus or maybe I'm just paranoid?

[Spacetourettes]

This is my first time having axolotls and I've managed to keep 3 alive and in good health since they were tiny babies. I just noticed these white specs all over my leucistic that are not on my white albino and my golden. Does this look like a fungus or is it just it's coloration changing due to age? My water parameters are/have been completely normal, I have ample plant life and hides, and they all 3 eat and act normal. I just have never noticed those spots.

 

[Charlotl]

Fungus is a fluffy cotton like thing so it isn't fungus at least. I believe that those are a natural pigment that axolotls sometimes have called iridophores. I read somewhere that they usually don't appear until the axolotl is nearly past or past the juvenile stage if they are going to get them.

Edit: Look down to the second White Albino picture http://sillyaxolotls.wix.com/sillyaxolotls#!colour-variations/c4fk It looks quite a bit like what is on yours.

 

[auntiejude]

Those are glands (parotoid) in the skin. In some terrestrial salamanders such as fire salamanders they secrete the toxin the sits on their skin for protection.
In axies it contributes to their slime coat.
So it's completely normal, it's just more visible in white axies.

 

[Spacetourettes]

Thank you guys for the info!! I can rest easy now that I know I'm just paranoid and not that educated on the subject, haha.

 

[sebguy]

Don't worry we all have our moments of panic and paranoia as lotl carers