Cup Coral

So a few weeks ago I was at the LFS and noticed this pretty little cup coral
was on sale. I had never read anything about cup corals but was told their
care was pretty straight forward. Well I got it home, put it in my tank and
everything was fine. Two weeks passed and I decided to move the coral to a
place that was more visually appealing to me. This was slightly higher in
the tank and was receiving more water movement. Another week went by and
now I am noticing that the 'cup' part of the coral is swelling up on the
inside of the cup, almost enclosing many of the polyp clusters. I moved a
power head so that the area would receive less water movement but the
swelling hasn't subsided. Any ideas what is wrong? Does anyone know of a
good online site where I can get some info on this guy? Please refrain from
posting about how stupid it is to buy something you don't know how to care
for. I understand that better now. In the past I have always been able to
hold off until I could do some research. I just don't know what got into me
this time.

Thanks,
Ed

in the past when I have noticed a swelling look on my cup coral, its not the
coral, its some "worm" that has moved in and decided to live in the polyp
hole. I have two on mine and they close the hole with what looks like a
cats eye that opens and out sticks two little "antenna" looking tentacles.

they form a distinctive "bump" around them.

id post a pic but my server is not accepting FTP's the past few weeks dunno
what's wrong there and I cant get the alt.binaries with my news server

kc

"Ed Greco" edwin.REMOVE ME TO wrote in
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So a few weeks ago I was at the LFS and noticed this pretty little cup
coral
was on sale. I had never read anything about cup corals but was told
their
care was pretty straight forward. Well I got it home, put it in my tank
and
everything was fine. Two weeks passed and I decided to move the coral to
a
place that was more visually appealing to me. This was slightly higher in
the tank and was receiving more water movement. Another week went by and
now I am noticing that the 'cup' part of the coral is swelling up on the
inside of the cup, almost enclosing many of the polyp clusters. I moved a
power head so that the area would receive less water movement but the
swelling hasn't subsided. Any ideas what is wrong? Does anyone know of a
good online site where I can get some info on this guy? Please refrain
from
posting about how stupid it is to buy something you don't know how to care
for. I understand that better now. In the past I have always been able
to
hold off until I could do some research. I just don't know what got into
me
this time.

Thanks,
Ed

I posted a pic for Dragon Slayer on alt.binaries.aquaria on this topic the "from" field
has my name in it, the pic is from Dragon

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Richard Reynolds