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Love me some stump remover lol.. my hands are always a mess and in the tank without issue.. his skimmer would be the tell tale sign that’s why I asked..I have dipped dirty hands into my tanks for years... not on purpose so much, but just that sometimes I need to do tank maintenance on the same day that I put a transfer case back into one of our fleet... and something is still not on them even with a good scrub. There is next to no chance that anything from your hand is the culprit. Candles, neighbor spraying for bugs, grease, lotion, Febreze, etc. are not your issue. Heck, people pour stump remover and all other kinds of things with unknown ingredients. There are all kinds of toxins in the food that we feed, in small amounts.
I would also look disease. It is more likely that something got it on an invert or the fish were not actually QT'd perfectly. It could also be a test kit failure, inaccurate or miscalibrated hydrometer or refractometer. ...something like this.
The answer is usually the easiest.