Ora Hawkins echinata

[Pirates.Reef]

Fragged multiple times a great grower under my leds

 

[phillrodrigo]

This is one of my favorite. I lost mine do to brown jelly of my euphyllia. When my euphyllia would start sliding away and dieing my wrasse started chowing on it and made a mess hammer polyps floating every were. One little hammer was stuck to my Hawkins I picked it off the next day it was bone white.

 

[Pirates.Reef]

This is one of my favorite. I lost mine do to brown jelly of my euphyllia. When my euphyllia would start sliding away and dieing my wrasse started chowing on it and made a mess hammer polyps floating every were. One little hammer was stuck to my Hawkins I picked it off the next day it was bone white.

Its one of mine too but it is very sensitive to dips and drying out if you leave it out in the air for to long like all the smooth skin acros.

 

[Homebrwr]

Is this considered a deep water Acro? Nice...

 

[Chris Adams]

Very nice. I have a small 1 in my 30. Finally dialing in and stabilizing everything so hope mine starts to grow. Seems like it has been 1 of the slowest corals in my tank.

What are you param #'s and what leds do you have?

Also where in South Florida?

 

[jasonandsarah]

Do you keep this in low, mod or high light? I have a frag I just can't seem to make happy.

 

[FarmerTy]

Do you keep this in low, mod or high light? I have a frag I just can't seem to make happy.

I've thrown mine in medium and high light with no issues.

It's currently in 350 par but I've had it as high as 500 par.

 

[jasonandsarah]

I've thrown mine in medium and high light with no issues.

It's currently in 350 par but I've had it as high as 500 par.

I've been moving mine around every 2-3 weeks because I just can't make it happy. Loosing color and when I first got it there was some tissue loss. It's a smooth skin and I dipped it in bayer so idk maybe I damaged it? Hopefully what I have left makes a comeback.

 

[FarmerTy]

I've been moving mine around every 2-3 weeks because I just can't make it happy. Loosing color and when I first got it there was some tissue loss. It's a smooth skin and I dipped it in bayer so idk maybe I damaged it? Hopefully what I have left makes a comeback.

I've left it in Bayer by accident for over 30 mins with no issues... and my Bayer usage borderlines on abuse. It's so concentrated, you can't even see the coral.

If it's a big enough piece, I'd just frag it, superglue any parts that STN, and put a couple pieces in different areas just to see what it likes. I've had success in high flow, low flow, high light, and medium light. It tolerated 50ppm of nitrates and 1.031 salinity at one point. It actually looked better than ever to be honest. The one thing it doesn't tolerate to me is elevated phosphates. Hope that helps.

 

[FarmerTy]

Oh,I should say that its one of the fastest corals to RTN on me if I don't stop the RTN with superglue or cutting off the infected RTN'ing portions. If I leave it to take care of itself, the whole colony will be gone in short order.