Are these parasites?

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I just had another small koi die on me. I picked him up in the skimmer and I saw lots of tiny worms, clearly visible with the naked eye. Are these parasites? Which ones? They dont look like anchor worms to me from what Ive seen or? :

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Sorry for all the dirt, its skimmer water, but you cant miss them.
 

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Not anchor worms, I'm with 27Goldfish, what I see in the bucket looks to be mosquito larvae.
 
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Oh no.. mosquito's lol. Well, thats good news I guess. This was another of my KSD affected fish that I didnt manage to catch and treat. Thats 3 out of 5 that died so far. While 0 out of 5 for the ones I treated.

Anyway, I also scraped and scoped the fish, 4 times, skin and gills, and I got to see one (I guess) parasite, but it doesnt look like anything I can find on the web. The closest match is gill flukes, but it looked quite different. It was very small (had the scope on 600x), long like shaped like a worm and it looked as if its neck split in to a Y and had 2 heads. Here is what I found on youtube being the closest match, but still different enough that Im pretty sure its something else:
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But since I really could find only one in several scrapes, Im not gonna assume its what killed it.
 

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