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Well, I have that anchor thing removed. In addition to your very appreciated advices, I put some PP (Potassium Permanganate) solution on the worm with a cotton swab right before using tweezers. I do not know if that particularly helped, but the anchor was not so difficult to pull out. Hope, the fish...

I would appreciate any advice. I noticed something that appeared to be an anchor worm on a newly purchased java loach (pangio oblonga) about a week ago. Treated my fish tank with Parasite Clear which contains diflubenzuron (Dimilin) 3 days ago. Maybe it worked, but obviously the worm is still alive....