They are tiny white dots...Everywhere..Those white dots are what I put under the microscope as far as I can tell...
What bums me even more is that some of these are due to "ick", high ammonia levels, and high nitrites. I keep my tanks perfect, I test my water almost twice a week, I vacuum, I scrub, water changes per week, I balance the PH, I mean everything you could do. I keep it cleaner and better balanced than most of the stores I go to for fish. I also have two filters I run in my big tank cleaning both ends. There are never ammonia. I keep my tank so clean that the first week of running Prazi I pulled the active carbon and the nitrites, nitrates and ammonia did not budge for a week. So it is obviously clean if it can function without carbon for 7 days and not have an ammonia rise.
I remember the fish I got that brought it in. It had white dots, but I thought it was part of its look because It was black with dots naturally. Then after seeing the itch I decided to catch it and take a magnifying glass and thats when I realized the dots were parasites. I have never had a parasite before, so this has all been new to me, as well as frustrating...