White leech?

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    snyper564 Dwarf Puffer

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    :eek: My sister was busy looking at my tank and said i have a worm on the leaf under closer inspection i realised its something that looks like a white leech moves like a white leech. Any idea what it is. i took it out immediately dont want anything harming the fish. Thanks sorry for the bad quality close ups are a bit blurry

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    cant say - with that pic
    Maybe warn the retailers you have been buying from
     
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    Wow, now that is weird. How big was it approximately?
     
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    did you remove it ?

    id take out the plant it was on to be safe
     
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    They had a little article in a aquarium magazine about some little weird white parasite that seems to be more common now. They only showed it on goldfish though.
     
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    I took it out and destroyed it, i googled leech and saw that the anatomy looks exactly the same really not sure how it got there i check all my plants before adding them and i just added a corksrew vallis this past week
     
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