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Thanks wilder! I had totally disregarded eye flukes. All fish in the aquarium were wild caught which explains a lot. Thanks again!

Yes, I have tried googling parasites with little success. Can anyone suggest a good all round wormer for fish that will not harm crayfish and shrimp? I don't know if it is a larval stage of something more sinister or simply a case of worms. I may as well try to kill it with a wormer I guess.

I have a Queensland (Australian) native biotope aquarium, and while observing my purple spotted gudgeons I noticed that one of them had something in it's eye. After a closer look, I realised that it's right eye ball is harbouring approximately ten tiny white worms all finer than a human hair, a...