My new center piece

Leishman · Sep 13, 2009

Picked this up @ the LFS today:

and my new fish:

bamachamp92 · Sep 13, 2009

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

Leishman · Sep 13, 2009

ORA Hawkins Echinata, a big one.

bamachamp92 · Sep 13, 2009

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

xmjxflipx · Sep 13, 2009

lol leishman can i ask how much that baby cost?

Leishman · Sep 13, 2009

xmjxflipx said:
lol leishman can i ask how much that baby cost?

Too much

amore169 · Sep 13, 2009

Very nice clowns!!

myzislow · Sep 13, 2009

wow, crazy big hawkins! Very nice.

MikeB · Sep 13, 2009

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 · Sep 14, 2009

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

wicked demon · Sep 14, 2009

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 · Sep 14, 2009

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

Supreme Reefs · Sep 14, 2009

dang thats a very nice piece!

oceanparadise1 · Sep 14, 2009

Wow awsome piece

dacro · Sep 14, 2009

Nice score!!!

revhtree · Sep 14, 2009

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

Palancar · Sep 14, 2009

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

Leishman · Sep 14, 2009

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.