DT and QT Contamination!?

[MetaKnight101]

Alright I may or not have Contaminated my new tank but i'm so paranoid about it. So short story.. My QT has a lid and I was going to top off water, at that moment I just finished setting up my new reef tank. Then checking salinity popped my head since I just finished pouring new saltwater into the new tank. So I put the QT lid down and took my hydrometer and dipped in the New tank to check the salinity. my hand just skimmed the water. Did I cross contaminated my new tank? BTW the QT lid is dry there are no water particles on there but is there a chance I could still have contaminated my tank? I should have washed my hands.

Also there was Marine Velvet in the QT at that moment

 

[Diesel]

Possible.

 

[MetaKnight101]

Possible.

If it did cross contaminate, since I just set up the tank today should i just dump everything out and rinse with vinegar or something and just reset it up again

 

[Diesel]

You have livestock in there?

 

[MetaKnight101]

You have livestock in there?

No there is nothing in it I just setted up today

 

[Diesel]

Great, that is good news.
Any livestock in your QT

 

[MetaKnight101]

Great, that is good news.
Any livestock in your QT

Just Two little Snowflake Clown fish there being treated rn

 

[Toofattofish]

When you say you have velvet in the QT can you give more details? Is there an active outbreak?

 

[Diesel]

I guess if you want to play it save these clowns will stay a while in QT

 

[MetaKnight101]

When you say you have velvet in the QT can you give more details? Is there an active outbreak?

There has been an active outbreak in my previous tank killing very single fish I had except these little clowns

 

[Maritimer]

If you don't add any fish to the new tank for six weeks, any velvet dinospores you might have inadvertently added will have matured - and subsequently starved to death. Cycling and going "fallow" at the same time.

~Bruce

 

[HotRocks]

In theory the only thing you could have transferred to the new tank would have been free swimming dinospores. Which can live up to 16 days without a host.

 

[MetaKnight101]

In theory the only thing you could have transferred to the new tank would have been free swimming dinospores. Which can live up to 16 days without a host.

I thought Free Swimming Dinospores can only live without a host for 72 hours?

 

[MetaKnight101]

If you don't add any fish to the new tank for six weeks, any velvet dinospores you might have inadvertently added will have matured - and subsequently starved to death. Cycling and going "fallow" at the same time.

~Bruce

Good Idea, be better instead of tearing the whole tank down

 

[MetaKnight101]

When you say you have velvet in the QT can you give more details? Is there an active outbreak?

The Fish are just infected with vevlet

 

[HotRocks]

I thought Free Swimming Dinospores can only live without a host for 72 hours?

Ich tomites (free swimmers) can only live for around 72hrs, velvet dinospores (free swimmers) are actually a dinoflagellate, and can survive for some time without a fish host living simply from a light source.