My hawkins frag extends it's polyps during the day...

[Durandal]

When I was doing research on this species, I could find no pictures of it's beautiful (but tiny) florescent green polyps. It sounds like they don't usually come out during the day.

If I had known I would have bought it even faster than I did.

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• Durandal
• Aug 21, 2018

-Durandal

 

[DesertReefT4r]

My ORA Hawkins had blue polyps. They where always out but super extended at night.

 

[Durandal]

My ORA Hawkins had blue polyps. They where always out but super extended at night.

Cool! I wonder how many other morphs there are...

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Placement, lighting, flow and nutrients has a lot to do with what color a given coral will take on.

 

[jda]

Mine are only out in the inner parts of the colony. They are put away on the outer edges. A. Echinata is not a high PE species.

There is only one Hawkins. It came from ORA about a decade ago. It sometimes needs to be golf-ball sized before it gets true color, but it is really unmistakable.