Donor: Cabbage Leather

[Don Davis]

I can bring 5 cabbage frags to the meeting if anyone is interested. If you would like to sponsor a cabbage leather, please reply here.

Don

 

[timhenry]

would it live under 30 watts of PC lighting in my 5 gallon nano? I was planning on having pumping xenia in there would they get along?

thanks

tim

 

[Don Davis]

Tim, It should do fine under your lighting and with Xenia. Cabbage is one of the hardier leathers and will adapt to most any condition.

Don

 

[timhenry]

ok,

when im at the meeting...i would love to take a piece and frag a piece of it to donate back to the club....

tim

 

[RamManOK]

Don,

I will try a piece of the cabbage leather.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[jgoelz]

Just a word of encouragment in keeping this coral. I received a frag of Don's cabbage leather about 4 months ago and it is growing rapidly. The piece I got was about the size of a pinky finger, now it is bigger than my whole hand.

I seem to have trouble with some corals (mainly LPS) but this one is easy to take care of. It doesn't require direct feeding and can withstand alot of different environments and conditions. I have 220 W of lighting over my 75 and it seems to be more than adequate for this coral.

 

[poke75]

Don,
I would like to get a piece of the cabbage leather also.

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Don Davis]

I got Tim, Tom and Steve. Two still up for grabs.

Don

 

[Pamela]

Hi Don, a few questions for ya. How big will they get, have you had any toxic troubles from them and I've been reading up on them and it seems that colored ones do better in higher lite, is yours brown or colored? Thanks, Pamela

 

[jgoelz]

Here's a link to a shot of the cabbage Don gave me taken about 3 months ago. At this stage I had grown the coral for about 3 months

It is the brown coral located at the center left side of the pic

 

[Don Davis]

Hello Pam,

The cabbage coral will get as big as you let it, but it is very easy to control through propagation. Mine is currently about volleyball size and needs to be cut back, again. I haven't noticed any toxicity problems with other corals. There are several other corals growing into and on the cabbage. It is a pinkish brown color and should do well under PC, VHO or MH lighting. They grow in intertwining lobes or petals and look like a large flower. They make excellent center pieces when they get large.

Here is a picture of mine.

Don

 

[Pamela]

Thanks Don, sounds good to me, I'll give it a try.

 

[Pamela]

Thanks to you also jgoelz for the info

 

[Bungle]

Hey Don, may I take you up on the offer for a frag?
Thx, Adam

 

[Don Davis]

OK, all cabbage is spoken for.

I have Tim, Tom, Steve, Pamela and Adam.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the next meeting.

Don

 

[RamManOK]

My cabbage frag is doing great. It is opening up and looking real good.

Tom

 

[jgoelz]

Here's a closeup shot of my cabbage leather that I took with my new camera. I hope I can figure out this photography thing.

 

[Pamela]

Don, it looks sooooo good perched there right in the center Thanks again, Pamela

 

[pwhitby]

bump

 

[Pamela]

Don, it has indeed become my centerpeice I have it in the 150 under 2 250 mhs and 4 vhos on a shelf across the center of the tank. Thanks again. Pamela