Time will tell. I've never sucessfully intervened and saved a fish that was in trouble. I've killed a few trying. While he continues to eat well and behave normally, I'm going to watch.

From experience, I've had a Powder Brown with a deep gash like that from a Powder Blue and he healed up perfectly fine. I ended up selling him to a fellow CanReefer in tip top shape.

As long as it's eating it'll be ok. I'd run ozone/uv for the white spots. Both will heal up faster in a hospital tank though as it's obvious some other fish is causing him stress.

I had a clown that had almost half her head detached from a tang attack, and she healed up fine as well, in the main tank. I was shocked, I didn't think she'd make it through the day, so they are resilient creatures, this one could recover fine where it is!

This is what I would do, I too have killed fish in QT trying to save them.

My lavender tang (RIP) had a real bad case of ich however she was eating fine and didn't seemed bothered by it when she was in the main tank. But still I thought I should take her out and do hypo in QT. She survived almost the whole QT process (all the ich was gone) however the stress of the hypo and the stress of going from a 230g to a 30g QT tank killed her. She was alive the day before we went to bring her to her new home, unfortunately in the morning when we went to catch her to bring her to her new home she was dead :cry: I have to say I lost a lot of faith in practice and use of QT methods.

I soak the mysis I feed my fish in selcon and garlic when any of them have a cut or scrape etc. and it seems to help my fish heal faster. I would try that and keep an eye them.

I have a coral beauty that had a gash way worse than your PB, and at first I thought that it was a gonner however after 3 days the open wound started healing up and now you'd never notice that it was ever there.... no scares whatsoever. The wound was so open you can see it's flesh almost to the bone half inch wide by 1.5 inch long. Trying to qt a fish can put alot of stress on it especially when you try to catch it, personally I would see about the wound if it heals within a week.

Here is an update photo taken after 8 days. So far, a remarkable recovery in a short time.

You can see, the lymphocystis has not changed much (if that is what he's got...). I've added Selcon to their diet to see if that can help at all.

Dec 31
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0381.jpg

Jan 2
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0387.jpg

Jan 4
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0427.jpg

Jan 6
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0435.jpg

Jan 8
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/100_0438.jpg

might just be my imagination, but it looks like the cut is starting to close. I would do the same though, leave it be and pump it full of as much food as you can. set up a other algae stations if it is getting pushed away from the other.

That definitely looks like progress in the right direction regarding the wound..

Wow, I am surprised Buster's guts didn't fall out!

so do you have updated pics....I am finding this thread very interesting.....and curious at the same time.