Super excited to see that build and what you do with it.I am cycling a six gallon Pico, another month it will be ready. BRS has Hippos right now. Hippos are a favorite, right behind Crocea. I really need to up my Pico game. Thank you for the links.
BTW mine is one of those recent-ish batch of ORA Hippos, and has been picking up some good greenish tones. @minus9 and I picked them up together, he was kind enough to let me have the one with more green speckling. It started out more as a few iridescent patches, and now the whole mantle in between the stripes is definitely a fuller green. Not solid, more translucent/iridescent on top of the background zoox color. If you're getting a non-WYSIWYG hippo, full disclosure, the other ~5-8 that were there were some pretty 'regular' hippos. Still beautiful IMO as that's what a hippo is supposed to look like, and I would have been happy with any of them, but green was present in batch but a rarity. Maybe 1/4-1/2 were high-stripe-count.