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.

Golden Ocean Invests in PNG Fishermen in Another Round of Net Training

For many companies the term ‘sustainable’ is nothing more than window dressing, a buzzword to use in their marketing with only the most rudimentary effort towards achieving goals that can be tenuously described as low impact. As we’ve seen from RVS…

Come See Our 3 Amazing Speakers at ReefStock Denver

ReefStock is a different kind of aquarium conference where we’ve always put strong emphasis on having a well rounded reef show and one thing we never skimp on is the caliber of our speakers. We’ve welcomed so many great aquarium…

Aquaman Knox Does a Video Deep Dive into Canister Filters

Since we are so deep into creating content for the reef aquarium hobby in terms of articles, videos and podcasts it’s always refreshing for us to see and hear what other aquarium veterans have to say about aquarium gear. One…

Lots of Reef Tank Talk on Reef Therapy

For most of our aquarium career we’ve mostly listened to music or unrelated spoken word podcasts while working on our aquariums. But this is 2022 and there’s loads of great content related to reef aquariums like the Reef Therapy podcast…

AquaMaxx Prism II LED Lights Coming in Four Sizes & Silver Finish

The AquaMaxx Prism II is the third generation of affordable strip lights from Bulk Reef Supply which offer a respectable amount of light and rich colorful spectrum at a price that will leave plenty in your budget to afford some…

Maxspect Jump SK-800 Skimmer Review [Video]

When companies aim to make a budget friendly or value conscious brand they often have to make a lot of compromises to get the total cost down in the final product but this trend doesn’t seem to apply to Maxspect’s…

A Close Look at Captive Bred Regal Angelfish

Regal angelfish are one of the most unique of all angelfish being the only species belonging to a monotypic genus, Pygoplites, and also the only angelfish to have two described subspecies, a rare designation among marine fish. It was nearly three years…

A Great Technique for Shipping Delicate Coral Colonies

Shipping corals across and around the country is a feat that is performed thousands of times per day but it wasn’t always so, and it wasn’t always a great outcome. In the last twenty years the hobby has grown collectively…

Stands are the most Underrated Gear of Aquarium Keeping [Video]

There’s a lot of ‘sexy’ and exciting equipment and gear in the broader aquarium hobby but none is more overlooked yet more crucial than the venerable aquarium stand. Aquarists might put a lot of consideration and research into what kind…

ReefStock Denver is just Three Weeks Away!

ReefStock is a unique flavor of reef aquarium event home grown in the Colorado Rockies since 2008 to really focus on what makes aquarium conferences an aquarium party you won’t want to miss. Like many aspects of our lives we…