Sps Spotlight: ORA Hawkins Echinata

[revhtree]

Please share your Hawkins photos and growth experience!

image via killingseed2000

 

[darryl_v]

Growth is slow...but not too bad for a deepwater. Color is excellent and growth form is really interesting. It doesnt need a ton of light either....

 

[jgraz]

Here's mine.Those are some great colors you guys are getting.

 

[revsgirl]

Nice ones!

 

[Graffiti Spot]

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Seems to do well in high light and low light for me. Growth seems to be average once it gets to a good size.

Darryl_v how do you get yours to have such a dark blue on the tips?

 

[Servo]

Lets bring this back to life!!! This is such a beautiful and often taken for granted SPS!

 

[dieselkeeper]

 

[BryanS4]

I hack mine up a lot

 

[alten78]

One of my top 3 favorites. Just picked up a little frag that was really light, unfortunately it is not recovering like I was hoping. Keep the pics coming!

 

[Squirrel_reefer]

 

[HgrReefs]

Here's mine. Started from a frag about 4 months ago.

 

[therman]

Comes and goes, though I've kept it for many years. Once it gets big and some detritus or algae gets ahold in the middle of the colony it can be difficult to keep going and needs to be chopped up, in my experience. It is an absolutely unique and amazing Acropora, and if it showed up in the hobby for the first time today, people would be losing their minds over it.

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

thought I would revive this thread. Used to be a lot of this locally but now not so much. picked up a tiny frag for $20

 

[Stickboy15]

how fast does it grow

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

supposed to grow pretty fast. i just have a 1 incher though. annoying but it is supposed to be a fast grower

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I just got rid of my last piece of this last week. But I think mine could have been a turaki anyways. I see a lot of people mistaking the two.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Lets bring this back to life!!! This is such a beautiful and often taken for granted SPS!

Beautiful tight growth on yours!

 

[Servo]

It looks great but is Hard as hell to frag!

 

[Travis Stewart]

Ian this supposed to get light on tips where growth isn’t happening? Not much PE on these either huh?