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If I test my salinity in my quarantine tank with infested fish using my Icecap salinity meter. Say they have ich or velvet. And then go wash it off with fresh water and dry it with a paper towel. And then test my display tank. Is there any need to worry about cross contamination if it's thoroughly dry? Ich can't survive being dried out right. How much moisture is required to sustain it? TTM suggest drying for three days so every nook and cranny has dried out of a full quarantine system. Pumps,tank,filtration etc... But does rinsing and drying a small instrument count? Yeah, I could dip it in bleach. Wash it off and then dry it. But I wonder if anything could survive being directly washed off after a quick dunk and then dried. I realize all it takes is one drop to cross contaminate , and sharing quarantine tools with the display is a bad practice. Was just curious. I always use separate pipettes and vials for testing and try to minimize any cross contamination with anything. Hoses, nets, air line, gravel vac etc...
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