Illness/Sickness: Gill stalk tip bent and turned white?!?!

[IHeartCapnHook]

About a week ago, I had to move my tanks into a different room. The lotls went into the hospital tank for about 30-40 minutes while I emptied, moved and refilled each tank. Yes, tight quarters, but for a short amount of time. A couple of the lotls have little bends in their stalks.

2 days ago, Monster took perch at the top of a plant and had his/her stalk tips out of water.

Now, Monster seems to have his/her tips curling/bending and turning white at the tips. I do not see any fuzz. Photos close up of Monster. Last picture is from behind.

Nobody else in the tank has white tips?

HELP?!?!

Temp 63' F
Ammonia 0.5 (always at 0.5 even after filtering and treating)
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 10

 

[DSaxolotl]

Hello,

Its been a while but did you clear this up? It does not seem very bad from the pictures.

I would up the water changes bit more and monitor the progress. Maybe even a bit of API Melafix as per bottle instructions or maybe bit less. Before jumping into more serious medications

Btw how can you ammonia stay always at 0,5? Are you sure your filter is cycled ammonia should be zero or the filter can not keep up.