ORA hawkins "echinata"

[myzislow]

Great pics everybody, thanks for sharing and contributing to the thread!! A lot of beautiful pictures for sure!

GSMguy- glad to see you finally got one, it really is a great looking coral.

Happysak-Yours is amazing!! Thanks for sharing.

Retzius -Looks pretty good, definitely some nice photography. It does look a bit pale at the base and in some of the branching though. Also, it seems to still be green? What kind of placement do you have it in?

 

[Retzius]

I have mine at the bottom with a 250 watt radium w/ lumenarc reflector.

Your right, mine looks more green with a little teal blue. Maybe I will try raising it later, maybe it will change colors.

 

[GSMguy]

you radium guys are making me jealous, i need new bulbs 250w DE with M-80 ballasts...


i am running pheonix now i might order them again because $ is right. other choices are helios or xm20k what to do???

 

[Retzius]

I had phoenix before and I have to agree with myzislow's comments about the radium vs phoenix bulb. The radium looks brighter and more crisp than the phoenix. I am using an m80 ballast (bluewave) with my radium.

 

[Canarygirl]

I wish the Radium people would come out with a 250 watt DE bulb

 

[seafansar]

Here's mine when I first got it.

4/29/08

And this is what it looks like today.

 

[GSMguy]

 

[twon8]

took a new pic tonight

 

[57vert]

I can never get the color balance right. Here's mine.

 

[Retzius]

wow twon8 nice shot :eek1:

How high and in what lighting do you have yours?

I am happy with the color of mine (green/teal) but I like your coloration better, more purple/blue.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one with a green hawkins

 

[dots]

Green ain't so bad....

Just thought I would share this for fun, comparison, speculation:

Here is a Turaki I have had for over two years:

How is the growth rate on the Hawkins? This one has been superslow......

 

[TheFallofSidney]

Wow looks soooo similar to the hawkins. I noticed deepwater corals grow slower than their higher reef brethren.

I'm planning on picking up a frag this week. I went to the LFS with the intent to buy one this past weekend but walked out with a bunch of unknown ORA frags for a good price lol.

 

[twon8]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12809722#post12809722 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Retzius
wow twon8 nice shot :eek1:

How high and in what lighting do you have yours?

I am happy with the color of mine (green/teal) but I like your coloration better, more purple/blue.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one with a green hawkins

Thanks for the compliment; I've got it about 3/4 up, under 250w aquaconnect, a bit to the side, not directly under the bulb. It has started growing faster since i put it into a higher flow area.

I would also agree that it's most likely A. turaki, and not A. echinata

 

[eagleONE]

Doug, that turaki is stunning.

 

[mattT5]

Sweet piece dots

 

[dots]

Thanks guys, its literally stalled out this entire time. It will only regrow the tips back if trimmed but never growing much more than where it was to begin with. I have probably moved it a dozen times finding its "happy" place.

Only recently has it started to grow, and always have thought the tight gowth pattern very interesting, but the odd coloration and brown patches have always concerned me and have been up many a night with a flashlight on this one particularly.

 

[eagleONE]

Doug, where do you have your turaki placed?

 

[dots]

Funny you asked, I just moved it yesterday towards more towards the center, giving it a better direct lighting as recently it has started to "wake up"

I think its been an aclimation thing and has just took a while to warm up....as there is a big difference in surviving versus thriving. I had another do this to, and once it got going was a weed. I had P04 problems for a while and suspect this was to blame.

Now that it is, I am curious if the tight growth will continue and how this will effect it in the long term, reminds me of how some birdsnests will do the same under different flow conditions.

But for just being a "green SPS" is an interesting one, which is why I thought I would bring it up.

 

[GSMguy]

 

[myzislow]

Looking good!!