Inhabited in humans, causing severe infection that is difficult to recover even after surgery and treatment. It has long been believed that urine attracts the candiru, although recent studies have shown that these animals do not show any interest for the urine.
There are very few documented cases that candiru attack people, with an average width of half a centimeter and an average length of 7.5 cm, these fish are a little too big to form uric channels. However, many people do not dare to come even close to candiru fish habitat.

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