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.

Clownfish Teamwork Moves Coconut Closer To Their Anemone

Now that Blue Planet II has finally begun airing, we’re starting to see a trickle of some of their best moments shared online. As much as we thought we knew about clownfish and their relationship with anemones, leave it to…

You’ve Never Seen Acropora Like This Before

We’ve collectively spent decades, centuries and millenia looking at our beloved SPS corals, but there’s only so much you can see in an aquarium setting with live corals. Sometimes you have to take a very specific approach to see what’s inside…

Bigblue’s RGB White LED Flashlight Can Cycle Through Four Different Colors

With the new RGB White Dive Flashlight from BigBlue you can leave the filters topside. Rather than forcing you to carry color-modifying filters, the BigBlue RGB White flashlight has four different modes of operation to cycle through. A simple four-channel…

Undewater Kinetics’ New Aqualite Pro Has Interchangeable LED Heads

The Aqualite Pro 100 eLED is a very interesting new dive light platform from industry leader, Underwater Kinetics. This medium sized light is perfect for a wide variety of applications, and is supported by a very diverse ecosystem of accessories…

Dynasty Marine’s Hybrid Basslet Makes A Rare Video Appearance!

The hybrid basslet specimen collected by Dynasty Marine earlier this year made quite a commotion as it is one of the first supposed hybrids of Liopropoma ever documented, especially between these two species. This is the kind of uber rare fish…

Parapercis altipinnis, a new Sandperch Species Was Discovered in a Fish Store!

Parapercis altipinnis is a new species of sandperch which has the potential to become a popular aquarium fish. Unlike many sandperch species which are long bodied with capacious mouths, the new sandperch is short with a bright red eye and…

Sunfire Grafted Cap Has Even Brighter Colored Polyps!

Grafted Corals, or ‘GFP Infections’ are among some of the most interesting and bizarre coral ‘strains’ available to us in the aquarium hobby. The phenomenon has been documented in a wide variety of corals, most often in small polyp stony…

Light Diffuser for Radion XR15, First Impressions

Earlier this year Ecotech Marine revealed a very unexpected accessory for the Radion XR15 LED fixture in the form of a light diffuser. This carefully engineered add-on retrofits over the LED cluster of the smaller Radion LED light and it…

Giant Clam Colors Could Hold Key To More Efficient Biofuels

Giant clams are full of surprises – not only are they very well adapted to high levels of sunlight on the reef but it seems out they might have some tricks that we can tap into ourselves. Anyone who’s ever…

This 500 Watt Multichip Is The Most Power Dense LED To Date!

It’s been a little while since an LED platform, diode, or technology really made us sit up and take notice but today we are in awe of YujiLED. This company has recently released a truly incredible multichip which is not…