Wounded puffer treatment with goby in tank

[PhantomAce]

Ok...
This morning when feeding my main DT my Picasso trigger (about 4 to 4-1/2") dove at the food when it hit the water.
Well, unfortunately the small (2-1/2") Stars and Stripes puffer got there first.
The Puffer got a mouthful of food, and the trigger got a mouthful of Puffer's right eye.

Eye is still attached, but it doesn't look too good, so, I pulled the puff, and did the only possible thing at the moment, re-acclimated him to salinity and temp in my QT, and put him in there to de-stress and hopefully heal.

Problem is that I have a small (3") Diamond Watchman Goby in the QT right now that I was waiting to clear quarantine before moving him over to the DT.

Here's my question:
My initial thought is to treat the tank with, possibly, Melafix or something similar. However, my memory isn't great, but I seem to recall that gobies aren't tolerant of all medications.
Any recommendation on something I can add to the tank to help the Puffer heal and prevent infection, that is also Goby safe?

Thanks.
Mike.
(PhantomAce)

 

[PhantomAce]

No ideas?
Anybody?

Had my wife pick up some melafix. Was hoping for some input before treatment, but I'm too worried about delaying longer before doing something, it's a pretty good wound.
Treating with Melafix now I guess.

 

[Mynx]

If you do not think it's safe for the Goby, weigh your options, a fish can survive with one eye very well. Will a goby that's dead be happy? Probably not. lol Take a step back and ask yourself very carefully if you want to risk the goby for a treatment that [may not]/[will] save the eye.

When my clown came to me with a severely damaged eye, I had a choice of treatment or see what happens, I got her a anemone instead. She's blind in the one eye, but she still has it, treatment would not have saved her from blindness.

**[Choice of words are up to you in this section]**

(((Also, some puffers are scaleless, so make sure you're allowed to do full dose with him if you choose to medicate.)))

 

[HumbleFish]

IME; gobies are not particularly senstive to any medications, so I doubt tea tree oil (i.e. Melafix) would bother them. Of course, it also might not do anything to help the puffer. I would keep an eye on his eye. If it starts to look like it's getting infected, use antibiotics i.e. something like erythromycin. You might also try dosing Epsom salt to relieve any swelling which might occur.

 

[biomek]

total newb here, but i'd have more concerns about putting an ocular injured fish into a QT tank with a fish that hasn't completed QT yet. If the puffer catches something from gobie, wouldn't that potentially cause more issues with the healing process?