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.

Dejong Marine Life’s Insane InterZoo 2018 Reef Tank

Alongside the deluge of new products we see every two years at InterZoo is the magnificent 3 meter (10 foot) square reef tank display of Dejong Marine Life. This giant display is quite literally an oasis of reef life in…

SunMotion is AquaConnect’s Vision of a Moving Aquarium LED Light

The SunMotion is a new moving LED light from AquaConnect, a company with a long history in making innovative aquarium lights which usually don’t make their way out of Europe. When Focustronic introduced the concept of a moving LED light…

Royalab Colorimeter Can Also Test for Calcium, Alk. & Magnesium

Royalab is a new colorimeter from Royal Nature that aims to take some of the guesswork out of testing reef aquarium water chemistry. What makes the Royal Lab very unique is that it can be used in conjunction with colorimetric…

Bubble Magus Carbon Fiber Pro Scraper

If you’re a fan of Carbon Fiber, and we mean the real stuff that the skins, then you’re going to love the new Pro Scraper from Bubble Magus. Made out of 100% carbon fiber this new tool will make short…

Red Sea ReefLED Makes Efficient Use of Multichip Design

The Red Sea ReefLED is the company’s first stand alone LED light fixture which has a formula that fits perfectly in line with the ‘Reef Spec’ philosophy from Red Sea. If there’s one thing this company is really good at…

AquaMedic Powerflotor Comes in Three Nearly Identical Sizes

The Powerflotor is a trio of compact controllable protein skimmers from the brand that popularized one of the first mass produced needle wheel skimmers, the Turboflotor. On its own the Turboflotor seems like a pretty reasonable and worthy protein skimmers…

Sera’s New Modular Nano LED Light is a Fun Way to Play With Colors

The premise of having modular light chips in our LED lights is an idea that has mostly been phased out with modern lights. But Sera is bringing the ability to mix and match LED colors back with their new clip-on…

New Dreambox Fleece Filters from Royal Exclusiv

The Fleece Filter Dreamboxes from Royal Exclusiv include two new devices to automatically filter aquarium water in an external form factor. Royal Exclusiv was far from the first company to offer the aquarium hobby an automatic filter roll but their…

Spy’s Simple & Very Effective Reef Tank [Video]

Spy AKA Prodigal Cube is a Filipino Reefer living in Dubai with a reef aquarium style that is uniquely his own. His 90 gallon tank uses a very dynamic aquascape to maximize the number of corals he can keep, and…

CR Twin Tech is Deltec’s Take on the Automatic Calcium Reactor

The CR Twin Tech is a new automatic calcium reactor from Deltec with a lot of bells and whistles, like all of them. At first look the Cr-Twin Tech is a lot for the eyes to take in, but there’s…