ORA Hawkins....blue or green?

[dvanacker]

My hawkins is more green then blue but I have seen picture on here with them more blue then green.

How do you get the hawkins to get that blue color? Does it just happen with age or what?

 

[yano]

My hawkins is more green then blue but I have seen picture on here with them more blue then green.

How do you get the hawkins to get that blue color? Does it just happen with age or what?

This is according to the conditions of each tank: light, flow, level of nutrients, iodine and potassium mainly. The blue color is not easy to maintain and often ends up becoming green to any lack of these parameters.

 

[CleveYank]

This is according to the conditions of each tank: light, flow, level of nutrients, iodine and potassium mainly. The blue color is not easy to maintain and often ends up becoming green to any lack of these parameters.

Yep and unless you want to be dosing all the time, (it's far easier to just buy a coral that is usually blue without dosing) it's sometimes just alot of tail chasing. I personally do not have the time or concern with such perfection. My hawkins with lots of water changes, great RO/DI and water chem stability with the occasional shot of amino is a nice teal or tweener color of blue/green. I probably spend just as much on new saltwater mix as the doser folks do on addtives. But I don't have to worry about over doing it.

 

[SDguy]

This is the first I've heard of this (it's not blue because it's lacking something). The hawkins is never blue (like oregon tort blue) in any pictures I've seen. Mine is always like CleveYank describes... teal blue/green.

 

[reefried]

yeah like a teal blue but def blue, when you look at a colorful hawkins with no lights(ambient room lights) it looks purple.......but its def on the blue side

 

[scrapz]

yeah like a teal blue but def blue, when you look at a colorful hawkins with no lights(ambient room lights) it looks purple.......but its def on the blue side

i believe very high light brings out purple tips, seen it in several peoples tank.

 

[stanlalee]

the shaded areas (base and lower branches on mine are green/yellow) but the parts exposed to light is blue so I definately think light dictates it.

 

[Atomikk]

For the record... we should rename the ORA Hawkings 'echinata' to Hawkings lokani.. because that is what it is

 

[dvanacker]

I dont know Vlad. A lot of other people say Turaki. I know it doesnt look anything like your lokani.

Personally Im not gonna even guess the species at this point.

 

[dvanacker]

by the sounds of it my teal colour with blue tips is the norm...thanks guys.

 

[SDguy]

i believe very high light brings out purple tips, seen it in several peoples tank.

Yeah, mine gets pretty high light (at least relative to my tank) and you can kind of see the purple coralite tips.

 

[returnofsid]

Here's a fairly recent pic of a friends colony that grew from a frag of my colony, which I've since lost.

Hmmmm that failed. Posting this from my phone and flickr wouldn't show me img tags, so here's a link.

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/mlhamilton/4746056423/sizes/l/in/set-72157624295257039/

 

[Atomikk]

I dont know Vlad. A lot of other people say Turaki. I know it doesnt look anything like your lokani.

Personally Im not gonna even guess the species at this point.

check out my post of today:

http://blog.fragd.it/2010/09/28/identifying-designer-corals-ora-hawkings-echinata/

Identical.

 

[29reef]

Vlad, coralite ID I agree, but how do you explain the growth shape of a colony? Unless every lokani I've seen has been miss ID. I imagine it's possible that the captive growth of this coral has possibly changed the growth from the wild form; but I have suspicions this is not the case. We will likely find out how easy it is to morph wild species growth forms in captivity. I think where or how ora got the coral would help with a 100% ID for me. Sorry to be OT

I find the coral to keep a greenish hue with blue growth tips. To me the coral looks a lot like the "turkari" Acropora that was imported maricultured months earlier. Exact same color pattern and shape.

 

[allsps40]

Here's a fairly recent pic of a friends colony that grew from a frag of my colony, which I've since lost.

Sounds like your friend needs to hook you up with a frag.

 

[buy_baff]

Mine's blue

 

[dvanacker]

Buff....that is what I'm talking about. Seems like the exception though. Anything you can attribute to the blue color?

 

[buy_baff]

I run WM ecobak bio pellits and dose vite C. My po4 is 0.00 and my no3 is 0. I think this has alot to do with it. All my corals are at peak color and groth.

 

[SDguy]

I guess I need my eyes checked. Other than a slight blue tint to the entire pic, that coral doesn't look any different to me

 

[29reef]

I agree Peter. I can make mine look the same no problem.

Here's an image of mine from a while ago. Don't mind my lack of photo skills.