Can anyone ID this?

[MrsBugmaster]

I did a peroxide dip on a pink spotted goby before going into QT. I could see something falling off of it. This is what it looks like under my microscope. Any ideas as to what I it is?

 

[Jay Hemdal]

I'm stumped - looks like stacked diatoms to me - paired up like that. Were they that gold in color, or is that an artifact of diffraction in the scope (my scope turns things green for example).

Jay

 

[MrsBugmaster]

It looked like white little things in the water when it came off the fish.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Appears to be flukes

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Appears to be flukes

I wonder - a lot of them seemed paired up, I’ve never seen that in flukes.

Jay

 

[MrsBugmaster]

For perspective this is from one pinhead sized, or smaller, white thing that was in the dip water. I could actually see these things falling off the fish. There were a dozen of more falling off. Just by looking at the fish with the naked eye I could not see anything. That would be a lot of flukes! I know there are different kinds of flukes but thought they looked more like sesame seed. I'm not saying they are not flukes, I'm just not sure.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Wait- these little things came from inside something else? They could be fluke metacercaie(spelling). Still doesn’t explain why they are paired up like that.

Jay

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Yes, I used a pipette and sucked up one little white things on bottom of container. When under the microscope I did not see the whole white thing like I saw in the container or an outline of anything but just the above pics is what I saw. I could not see that these were inside something else. My microscope is aAm Scope 490 series compound Microscope. Pictures were taken using the 10x objective.