My new center piece

**Leishman** · 09-13-2009, 10:56 PM

Picked this up @ the LFS today:

and my new fish:

**bamachamp92** · 09-13-2009, 10:58 PM

Wow very nice pickups Rik. Is that a turaki or some sort of echinata?

**Leishman** · 09-13-2009, 11:01 PM

ORA Hawkins Echinata, a big one.

**bamachamp92** · 09-13-2009, 11:03 PM

I thought thats what it looked like Ive just never seen one that big. It looks great.

**xmjxflipx** · 09-13-2009, 11:10 PM

lol leishman can i ask how much that baby cost?

**Leishman** · 09-13-2009, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by xmjxflipx

lol leishman can i ask how much that baby cost?

Too much

**amore169** · 09-13-2009, 11:18 PM

Very nice clowns!!

**myzislow** · 09-13-2009, 11:29 PM

wow, crazy big hawkins! Very nice.

**MikeB** · 09-13-2009, 11:31 PM

You will never have a LFS store have something like that here. Right when they get something like that they frag it in to 100 pieces. I would love to pick up a colony like that.

**ahayes13** · 09-14-2009, 12:00 AM

georgeous piece, ive never seen a hawkins that big. very nice pickup. nice new fish too

**wicked demon** · 09-14-2009, 12:10 AM

Same here, all the stores are so greedy they frag all the cool stuff into tiny pieces so they can make top dollar, we never see any big colonies of any named or limited editions much less really rare stuff, its why they are losing so much buisness to the internet. And that is a super sick acro!!!!! NICE SCORE!!!!

**aerius007** · 09-14-2009, 01:06 AM

super nice, we dont have anything like that at our stores either

**Bn251** · 09-14-2009, 02:18 AM

dang thats a very nice piece!

**oceanparadise1** · 09-14-2009, 02:26 AM

Wow awsome piece

**dacro** · 09-14-2009, 06:13 AM

Nice score!!!

**revhtree** · 09-14-2009, 08:13 AM

(in my best SNL Mike Ditka voice) DA BOMB!

**Palancar** · 09-14-2009, 08:56 AM

That is one super nice piece. The wife just shoved me away from the computer so she could see. Nice score.

**Leishman** · 09-14-2009, 09:26 AM

This is an ORA frag that just grew to this size in the store's tank. I think it has been for sale for quite some time but no one wanted to pay the price. Apperently a guy showed up yesterday and wanted to buy it but I had it on hold from last Sunday. This LFS is not so "L" to me. It's a 45 minute drive each way in zero traffic.

I got lucky.