Weird growth on fish!! Please help!

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• Apr 18, 2003

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Hi. My fish recently started to develop a white whisker like growth on their bodies. My gourami, one of my cardinal tetras, and one of my brissle nose plecos. I was wondering if anyone knew what this could be. It literally looks like a cat whisker coming out of the sides of their bodies (except they are not that long, i would say maybe 1/8 of an inch).

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Omid

 

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Google "anchor worms" and see if that's what your problem is.

 

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ChilDawg, THANKS!!! Those are the little pests. Damn it. Anyone know whats the best way to get rid of them? and will my fish be ok afterwards and how i could have gotten them?

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http://www.fish-disease.com/Diseases/AnchorWorm.htm

I'm not sure how they could have gotten them unless you had any new additions or moved your net from one tank to the next or something like that.

 

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• Apr 18, 2003

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Might guess would be you probably just got a new fish in which case he/she had it already and all the rest got it from that one.