"muddyfox" wrote in message
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Yes, I've had a good look through the list of fish diseases, in my
books and on the net and my best guess would still be a parasite -
either a type of worm similar to anchor worm or some kind of large skin
fluke. It doesn't look like dropsy with all the scales standing up.
Maybe ten to fifteen scales on the whole fish seem to have this white
thing under them which appears to wriggle.

If they're extremely small they could be some kind of body Fluke (use
Clout).

The scales don't stand up -
the white thing pokes out from under them while they remain in a normal
position. It's not something I've ever seen before.

I haven't either and have had fish for ages. :-(

(Probably my
inexperience showing here.) The second photo I took (see first post in
this thread) shows them quite clearly, especially if you look along the
upper edge of the fish shown. I'd get some more photo's but it's
really hard to get good shots of a flashing fish. The two I put up
were the only good ones in quite a few shots.

Where did you put the pics? I don't see them on the binary group.
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