Jake Adams
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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.

Doser Milestone 6 is a High Performance Single Channel Pump from Aqua Trend

Aqua Trend is a popular brand of saltwater aquarium products from Poland which has a long history of making advanced reef aquarium dosing pumps. The R Doser Milestone 6 is a handful of a name for Aqua Trend’s flagship single…

New Wave Made a Striking Tetris Shaped Concept Aquarium

The overwhelming majority of aquariums and fish tanks are square or rectangular in shape so it’s always nice to see some experimentation with the form factor. We’ve seen cylinders, spherical tanks, and ‘drop off’ aquariums have some fans but the…

Tankmatez Came Up With A Very Innovative ‘Bubble’ Fish Trap

Tankmatez is a company promoting a new kind of fish trap which is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. The Tankmatez ‘Bubble Trap’ uses a combination of unique attributes to trap fish safely & carefully in a manner which appears…

The Versatility of 3D Reefing’s Diffusers fro AI Prime and Hydra Lights

In recent years not only have our aquarium LED lights become more than bright enough for the needs of reef animals, but we’ve had to get creative with techniques to distribute and blend that light. NanoBox Reef was one of…

Huge Hybrid Emperor Angelfish Surfaces in Taiwan

The recent parade of exotic angelfish continues with a very large adult hybrid Pomacanthus. The emperor angelfish is arguably the most popular and recognizable of all the large angelfish species in the Indo-Pacific, which is why fish fanciers really notice when…

Quality Marine Makes History With Uber Rare Pitcairn Angelfish

It has been an incredible couple of weeks for rare angelfish news but nothing can top the mind blowing collection of deepwater species that Quality Marine just received from the Cook Islands. Those of you up to date on your…

The Xmas Tree Worm Aquarium, Five Months Later

The Reef Builders Studio was created to be a place of reef aquarium learning, discovery and experimentation, especially when it comes to setting up different kinds of reef aquariums. Many of us have often wondered what it would be like…

Thailand’s Atoll Farm Latest To Successfully Breed Pygmy Angelfish

Captive breeding of saltwater fish has really entered a golden age in recent years with more and new species being aquacultured than ever before. We can still remember a time when any saltwater fish breeding beyond clownfish was huge news, but…

ORMA Teases the Motherlode of Colorful Fluted Moon Corals

The fluted moon corals formerly of the special Barabbatoia genus may have been re-reclassified back into Favia, but that doesn’t really change how much we love them in reef tanks. This group of moon corals (Faviids), first ‘championed’ by Ocean…

Australia’s Hmahli Introduces NEW Kind of Reactor for Resins

Resin reactors are a brand new concept in reef aquarium water treatment being promoted by Hmahli Marine Life Support Systems, specially designed for use with the Blue Life USA line of resins. Chemical medias such as activated carbon, granular ferric oxide…