Cabbage leather placement

[teri.willy]

Anyone have an idea of how to improve my cabbage leather growth? We have him with at the top with great flow and lighting. Everyone else is happy, but cabbage...not as much.

Thanks!
Teri

 

[cloak]

Are you running any GAC? If not, this might help. Other than that just wait it out. These have been known to be a very temperamental coral sometimes.

 

[teri.willy]

Yep, GAC and GFO. I have put it in a couple spots over the past year, but he just doesn't seem to thrive. Everything else is quite happy. He used to be very large before I upgraded from 72 to 150.

 

[Mock]

Get him off the top.... Thats my suggestion. Bottom front corner is where mine loves to live. They are not a high light coral but they are a high flow coral.

 

[3dees]

I have mine on top in good flow. over a year and all is well.

 

[Mock]

Mine is roughly 6 years old and as large as that rock with all of those corals on it. Trust me.... They dont like it up by the light where the OP shows to have his...

 

[cloak]

I don't think the OP's coral is receiving too much light, considering the closest corals to it are Zoanthids and a Ricordea. If they can endure it, I don't see why the Cabbage leather couldn't. Flow might be a different story though. JMO.

 

[Mock]

Well the fact that it will also like I said get the size to the size of a giant football in no time is also a factor of placement..... Kind of like monties, most dont realize that they will shade the whole tank until they place them high and they plate out and thats that.... Cabbage coral is a bottom dweller.... It will eventually take over the whole area. I would place it to where it had plenty of room without destroying good realestate. Like the front bottom corner where it can do its thing.

 

[acrohead500ppm]

I would move it somewhere with less light, though honestly I didn't think you could tick off sinularia dura, stuff grows stupid fast.

 

[joshbrookkate]

I have mine on top in good flow. over a year and all is well.

Beautiful tank!

 

[cloak]

Well the fact that it will also like I said get the size to the size of a giant football in no time is also a factor of placement..... Kind of like monties, most dont realize that they will shade the whole tank until they place them high and they plate out and thats that.... Cabbage coral is a bottom dweller.... It will eventually take over the whole area. I would place it to where it had plenty of room without destroying good realestate. Like the front bottom corner where it can do its thing.

This might be true, but a Cabbage leather is extremely easy to frag. Just grab some scissors and have at it. Same goes with the Montipora, only you would probably break these apart.
Overall, they're both easy corals to manipulate.

 

[Mock]

You just have to understand that that little frag can and will grow to be this monster in a year or three.... This one has been cut back and moved from tank to tank but is still taking up the whole corner of my 250.

 

[cloak]

I'm not really sure if you understand, a pair of scissors will solve that problem for you, STAT! (STAT means now btw)

 

[Mock]

I dont understand a person that wants to buy a nickle size coral and keep it a nickle size coral by taking scissors to it all the time. Most people here want to let corals grow, to do their thing and not have to keep trimming them up if possible. If you plant GSP on a rock and put it on the top in the middle the same thing will happen, you will end up with GSP on everything. The proper steps would be to give them thing room to spread and grow and fill in, right on the top for such a large leafy coral is usually not best and you are left with wishing you had not done that because no matter the times you cut it back it will grow back and become a nuisance......