Starting to QT fish myself and after reading around a bit and losing a batch of fish to chloroquine phosphate I've decided I want to keep my fish in QT a little time as possible while still getting the job done. Here is my plan of attach I started last week with a few fish. Starting copper today.
General Cure x2 = 4 days
Water change + carbon = 1 day
Ramp up Copper Power = 4-5 days
Copper @ 2.5ppm = 14 days straight
24 day fully QT'd fish go straight to DT (or in my case frag tank as my tanks still not here).
Sweet QT setup by the way. I've got mine set up similar but with the sponge filters air driven.
I have been reading different people's quarantine protocols and am still learning what would be best for me.
I had read @hotrocks on R2R does 14 days of copper... but moves into a sterile tank after the treatment then does GC. He recommended that if I didn't have a fresh tank to move the fish to, that I should do 30 days of copper. I really don't know what the difference would be? I just asked him, my thought is moving to a fresh tank breaks the lifecycle of certain parasites like ich? Similar to TTM?
This last round of anthias, I didn't treat with copper. I just fed and watched them for 3 weeks, then did two rounds of General Cure. I didn't follow the instructions. I did one round, waited a week, then did another for a week.