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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.

Watch Tubastrea Larvae Escape Its Parent Coral by the Tentacle

Tubastrea sun corals are by far the most common non photosynthetic coral in the reef aquarium hobby, partially because they are so common throughout their natural range in the Indo-Pacific Oceans…

Is a $25 pH Monitor Even Any Good?

When I started keeping aquariums in the mid 1990s a pH monitor from Milwaukee Instruments or American Marine cost around a hundred dollars. Do you know how much they cost today around twenty five year…

Panta Energy is a Powerful Battery Pack for Hydro Wizard 42 Pumps

Panta Energy is a surprising new product from Panta Rhei specially designed for their small Hydro Wizard pumps. This unique battery pack has been created with all the leads necessary to put it in seri…

Red Encrusting Algae Grows in Freshwater Too

Algae are one of the oldest and most diverse groups of plants on the planet, growing in virtually all places that qualify as habitable, and even some that don’t such as snow in Antarctica. …

Ghostly White Sailfin Tang Could be the First of its Kind!

The first white sailfin tang came to us not as a tiny minnow but as a nearly full-grown adult Zebrasoma veliferum. This shocker of a fish specimen was shared by RVS Fishworld who is no stranger to fis…

Hanna Nitrate Checker Coming Soon for the Low Range

The Hanna Nitrate Checker is a long awaited addition to Hanna Instruments’ catalog of trusted digital water testers. The Hanna Phosphate Checker has been the gold standard in accurate, low range…

Caribbean Corals are Thriving at the Butterfly Pavilion

Around four months ago we reported on a batch of Caribbean Stony corals which were rescued from the advancement of a terrible disease, and entrusted to a Denver area institution called the Butterfly P…

Maxspect Coral Tweezers are Truly Optimized for Coral Handling

There are a lot of tools that can make the job of the aquarist much easier around the reef tank. We’re always on the lookout for any instrument that makes working with, handling, or simply reach…

Plectranthias polygonius & P. hinano are Two New Species from the Central Pacific

Plectranthias polygonius and P. hinano are two new species from our favorite group of dwarf basslets, and good thing too because there seems to be tons of them to be found in deep waters of the world.…

A Nice Long Reefing Discussion With Brazil’s Super Reef

Super Reef is a Portuguese language reef aquarium channel on YouTube with Edo Viega. Over the last few months this Brazilian reefing content creator has been amassing interviews with saltwater fish an…