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Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.

The ‘Fiji’ Yellow Leather Coral, Sarcophyton elegans

The ‘Fiji’ Yellow Leather is a living conundrum of a coral that is readily available in the hobby, but somehow also seems a little inaccessible. Contrary to most leather corals, there is a…

GNC BluRay Pro Goes Even Deeper Into the Blue

The BluRay Pro is a new high performance LED light from Italian aquarium light manufacturer GNC. This is their newest light model that we would have seen had InterZoo taken place which is a shame…

Ecotech Vortech and Vectra Pumps Start Shipping With Mobius Software

Mobius is a new software control platform that Ecotech Marine has been working on literally for years. The development of Mobius has been in beta testing for a very long time, only recently relea…

2020 Edition of the Typhoon Skimmer by Ultra Reef

As we’ve seen with the entry level Borei skimmer and the small footprint Akula models, Ultra Reef takes great pride in constantly improving their protein skimmers year over year, and this is esp…

The Versa Might Be the Only ‘Smart’ Pump With Continuous Dosing

The Versa from Ecotech Marine is a dosing pump with many different applications, making it versatile for a wide range of utilities. It’s programmable, controllable, and most reefers will use it …

Plectranthias purpuralepis is Taiwan’s Newest Basslets Species

Plectranthias purpuralepis is a brand new species of deepwater basslet coming from the North end of Taiwan in the Three Northern Islands area. It’s not surprising that this new Plectranthias is …

The Akula UKS ‘Ultra Compact Skimmer’ from Ultra Reef

The Akula Ultra Kompact Skimmer from Ultra Reef is an updated mid-range line of protein skimmers packing just as many goodies as the entry level Borei skimmer we introduced last week. AS the name impl…

Ultra Reef Borei Skimmer Skims its Own Way

The new Borei protein skimmer from UltraReef is perhaps one of the most exciting new designs of a smaller protein skimmer that we’ve seen in quite some time. At first glance it appears to be a s…

Top 10 Tips for an EASY & Successful Nano Reef Tank

There’s never been a better time to get into miniature reef aquariums, and setting up a small nano tank is a great way to get started. Reef tanks used to be mystical, magical glass boxes of reef…

There’s So Much More Living on Our Corals Than We Know

Over the last few decades a picture has been coming into focus that our corals are so much more than one simple animal, but a whole ecosystem unto themselves. Both the solitary and colonial …