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.

Rainfordia, Flathead Perch Photographed in Indonesia!

The flathead perch is a very unusual fish that just got a massive natural range extension thanks to Anna & Ned Deloach. The Husband & Wife team from Blenny Watcher have frequently documented highly noteworthy marinelife and their most recent…

Bubble King Auto Skimmer Stopper by Royal Exclusiv

The Bubble King overflow stopper is a new device to collect waste from your protein skimmerand automatically shut it off once the collector is full. If a protein skimmer is like a toilet where waste get flushed out of the…

Dendrochirus koyo, the Ogasawara Lionfish Described as New Species

The dwarf lionfish of the Dendrochirus genus are some of the most popular for the aquarium, no doubt due to their smaller size. The fuzzy dwarf lionfish Dendrochirus brachypterus and its relative D. zebra are recognizable to scorpionfish lovers and the new…

AquaEffects Nano LED Spotlight from ZooMed

ZooMed’s AquaEffects is an interesting line of aquarium LED lights with built-in sound effects, and now they’ve made it in a new form factor. The AquaEffects Nano LED takes the concept of the strip lights and concentrates the power and…

How to Actually Make Corals Grow Faster, High pH

After temperature and salinity, the pH of aquarium water is one of the most important parameters of reef aquarium chemistry. In freshwater tanks soft water fish have been adapted to higher pH and vice versa, and saltwater fish are not…

Small Controllable AquaBee UP 1000 V24 Coming Soon

The AquaBee UP 1000 V24 is an intriguing new little controllable DC pump. Just about the size of a powerhead, the UP 1000 V24 is the controllable version of the regular UP 1000 which can move up to 1,000 liters…

Getting the Deltec Twin Tech Calcium Reactor Up & Running [Video]

The Reef Buyilders Studio is finally reaching a certain degree of completion to the point that we can start using ‘Big Boy’ reef gear. The first hot rod piece of reef aquarium equipment to get a proper showcase is the…

Reefer Skimmer Review: Red Sea Still Knows How To Make Them Great

When checking out new gear at the reef shows and conferences, it’s very easy to become glazed over about so many very similar looking devices, especially protein skimmers. The Red Sea Reefer Skimmer is one such product that may look…

Red Sea’s New Nano Goby, Koumansetta hoesei

The Rainford’s goby, as well as the lesser known Hector’s goby, are pound for pound some of the most colorful, interesting and perfect little fish for the reef aquarium and last year we got a new species to induct into…

Deepwater Debelius Angelfish Collected in 50 Feet in Madagascar!

The Debelius angelfish is one of the rarest and most elusive angelfish species because it has only been known from very deep waters of the isolated island of Mauritius. Over the weekend we got some earth-shattering news about this species…