So, I have been doing some qting on some new fish. I have a hippo tang in copper for velvet. The tanks are in separate rooms from my display tank and none of the equipment or tools ever touch each other. I know that cross contamination of these tanks can be easy to accidentally do. Up until recently, I always assumed that if my hands were dry, or rinsed off it was ok. But now, after doing some more research I read that velvet can live in fresh water for some amount of time, so that means rinsing does not always gurantee clean sterile hands, and I never use soap on my hands prior to going into my tanks.
I obviously do whatever I can to never go from qt tanks to display tank, space out maintance as much as possible, but today I was doing a water change on my qt tank. I rinsed my hands afterwards, had lunch, hung out for a while then fed my fish in my display. I have to reach into the water some to place the nori on the clip. Now it was a couple hours time difference between having my hands in the tanks, but how does everyone else handle this situation, and should I now be worried about my display?
I obviously do whatever I can to never go from qt tanks to display tank, space out maintance as much as possible, but today I was doing a water change on my qt tank. I rinsed my hands afterwards, had lunch, hung out for a while then fed my fish in my display. I have to reach into the water some to place the nori on the clip. Now it was a couple hours time difference between having my hands in the tanks, but how does everyone else handle this situation, and should I now be worried about my display?
