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Thanks everyone for your replies, photo and identification [which was spot on from only seeing the underside of the fish!] :) I can see and understand now that the 'parasite' is indeed not a parasite but simply part of the fish anatomy- the anal fin and it appears like that as it is folded up. I'm q...

Hi fellow fish folks, I have a hypostomus or hill stream loach that I bought 1 or 2 years ago under the name of a borneo suckermouth catfish. I have just noticed something on the underside of his [or her's] belly that I think might be a parasite [either callamanus, or some kind of worm] but I'm not ...