her is a link to koivet.com which has a (poor) picture of an anchor worm.
the anchor worm is the 'Y'shaped thing attached to the fish
http://www.koivet.com/parasites.html
here's a better picture
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/lernea.html
Geoff kimber
lexington,ky
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From: owner-nanfa_at_aquaria.net On Behalf
Of james graham
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 6:59 AM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Fwd: native fish diseases
anchor worm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay DeLong" <thirdwind_at_att.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 9:36 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Fwd: native fish diseases
> From webpage visitor amphibian_1999_at_yahoo.com
>
> >Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:26:43 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: jacob cook <amphibian_1999_at_yahoo.com>
> >Subject: native fish diseases
> >To: nanfa_at_att.net
> >
> >Hi i have an aquarium and i catch native fish out of FL. I cought a 3inch
> >long yellow bullhead catfish. 1 day later i noticed that the catfish had
a
> >white dot with a white rod about 1/4 inch long protruding from it. i was
> >wandering if you could identify this disease.
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