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.

RapidLED Corona Has a Lot Going For It

The Corona LED is a new light fixture from RapidLED with a familiar form factor, but a full suite of useful features. The Corona LED has roughly the same shape and cooling system of the classic AI Sol, and an…

Stunning Adult Tiger Angelfish Sighted On The Outskirts of Chicago

The Tiger Angelfish is one of the most striking and exotic species of marine angelfish. Last week while speaking at Reefwise on the outskirts of Chicago we had a new opportunity to visit a long term captive Apolemichthys kingi and this…

Eshopps Teases EID Skimmer With New Type of Bubble Diffuser

Eshopps has a new protein skimmer in the pipeline and it looks like it’ll have one interesting new feature. A teaser image was released a couple weeks ago and the majority of the protein skimmer is mostly blacked out in a…

Sirius XTC by Reef LED Lights Is The Best of DIY Aquarium Lighting

LED lights for our reef aquariums have gotten really, really good in recent years and we’ve seen many great offerings from a diversity of aquarium companies. While most of these fixtures have converged on a similar blueprint and design for…

Live Grouper Presents Itself For A Dental Checkup

Captive fish can do some wild and wacky things in an aquarium environment. Nowhere are we more shocked than when are fish become completely unafraid of their terrestrial caretakers, and almost become friendly.  This video from the Port of Nagoya…

Skimz Macroalgae Reactor Looks Ready For Primetime

We’ve got a fresh new look at the Skimz macroalgae reactor, and boy has it come a long way from the prototype we spotted in Germany this summer. Gone is the fan-cooled mess that typified the original model, replaced now…

Saki-Hikari Marine Is The First Fish Food With Proven Probiotic Effect

Saki-Hikari is a new pellet food for marine fish from Japanese company Hikari. Although Saki-Hikari is being promoted with some familiar marketing buzzwords, it is probably the only one that has been tested and proven with years of research.  Hikari makes…

Xanthichthys lineopunctatus, First Encounter With The Mythical Linespot Triggerfish

The linespot triggerfish, Xanthichthys lineopunctatus is a species of marine fish so rare, that we’d never seen one, until last week. While visiting Reefwise on the outskirts of Chicago, we finally got to see this nigh-mythical triggerfish in person for…

Sera Dives Into LED Lighting With Interesting Approach

The German aquarium product manufacturer Sera is diving head first into LED aquarium lighting with an interesting approach. The Sera LED lighting system consists of a few different colors of LED Xchange Tubes which can be used standalone, or combined…

Get Your Reach On With Tamsco’s Deep Blue Aquarium Tools

Tamsco USA was at the Aquatic Experience this past weekend in Chicago, and a few of their tools really got our attention. We’ve long been a fan of black oxidized steel for its durability and longevity, but for years Boston…