Banggai Cardinal Swim Issue

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Hi,

I have a Banggai Cardinal that is not swimming well. The fish can stay upright, but when it goes to swim it's sideways or even goes upside down. I was treating the fish for prazi resistant flukes using hyposalinity. The fish was at 1.009 for a week, then I started to raise salinity back up. I brought it to 1.025 over the course of 12 days. The fish started having the swim issue a couple of days ago. During the hypo the fish seamed normal and was eating. The flukes damaged the fins, but those have been healing. While I was increasing salinity the water became a bit cloudy. I added carbon, then did a water change two days ago.

Any advise on what could be wrong?

Thank you

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I dont have experience with this, but it sounds like what I have read about swim bladder issues/disease. Try searching that to check if it is what you are seeing.
 
This morning the fish was floating around the tank like it was in outer space, so I decided to put it down.
 

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