Seeking advise

[Swanlara]

I bought a younger axolotl from a local pet store mainly because I couldn’t leave him there. The lady at the registered states the night before she took one home to try to nurse back to health. These were in the tank with some gold fish and then some other fish. I brought him home and he seemed to do well for a few days. He then began to start showing signs of stress with floating and literally bashing his head into the wall of my tank. I removed him and he was fridged for two days. He then was placed in a tub with ial leaves and brew. I treated him 3x a day with methylene blue. He is have a lot of fungus on his face. I was able to remove all his fuzz with a Q-tip and still let him enjoy his ial. I have returned him to the tank where ial leaves are still in the tank(new ones not the original ones). PH is holding at 7, Nitrates and Nitrites are both 0. water is 70% with 3 fans going. He looks 100% better And swims and is active. He has eaten very little but little is better than none. Tonight it looks like there may be some fuzz on his face or maybe it’s just the dead skin it doesn’t look like a cotton ball to me. Suggestions? Do I let him be and not stress him out with another qt or do I treat again before a bigger issue is back?

 

[Swanlara]

These are today’s pictures. Above post was one week ago.

 

[faebugz]

poor baby! what did you end up doing? I would treat that as aggressively as he's able to handle as it looks like in the last pic it started to come back. But take my advice with a grain of salt, I don't have much experience yet with axolotls

 

[Mother of Dragons]

Keep the water extra clean and keep the room as dark and cool as you can. If the leaves dont work, try brewing some pure black tea and doing a bath. Add an air stone if you have one.

 

[Erics]

What is the tea recipe as mine has a body fungus or molting. Does methylene blue safe?

 

[Swanlara]

i have used Methylene blue safe-don;t need a lot at all, so my bottle will forever. I used a tooth pick and literally a drop that came off it was beyond enough to turn the water blue where he would sit for 15 minutes. A tea bath is the same thing, either brew some Black tea with no additives. I used Indian almond leaves personally, I brewed them, and steeped them for when needed, and you can always put this in a tank (gives a brackish color if you remove your carbon). I would also just put a leaf in with him as he sat in his tub every day. This little fellow did not make it sadly, but he was very loved and taught me so much. I did not do salt baths-I was very uncomfortable in doing so.