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.

Siganus magnificus: Now THIS is how a magnificent foxface should look

The magnificent foxface, Siganus magnificus, is a wild looking species of rabbitfish. Once part of the Lo genus, the five former species of this genus have since been folded into Siganus with the other rabbitfish, but we still know what’s up! The smaller overall…

EFlux Wave Pumps Are The Perfect Mid-Level Water Mover

The EFlux Wave Pumps from Current USA are a very interesting entry to the reef aquarium water flow space. Rather than try to be the best pump in the world, or race to the bottom, the EFlux Pump are a…

Lani LED Finally Available for Purchase

The Lani LED is finally available for purchase after nearly four years of being featured in the pages of Reef Builders. It’s quite interesting that the Lani LED is what first drew our attention to Triton Labs, which has now taken…

Couple of Great Homophyllia australis at World Wide Corals

Homophyllia might have taken over as the name for Scolymia but that doesn’t mean we’ve lost any love for the ‘Australis’ doughnut coral. Hundreds of these corals are exported from Australia every week, and by and large, every single one of…

Top Five Most Popular Mike Paletta Stories

Mike Paletta was among the first crop of marine aquarium writers to educate the marine aquarium hobby in the early days, and he’s still spreading the good news today. We’ve been incredibly honored to have such a statesman of reefing, whom we…

Neat Scribbled Watanabei Angelfish Brought up by RVS Fishworld

Genicanthus swallowtail angelfish are among the most uniform and consistent looking members of the angelfish family. This makes it all that more exciting when an unusual specimen turns up, such as this scribbled watanabei angelfish from RVS Fishworld.  This male…

Micom Dosing ATO Is The First Standalone, External Auto Top Off Sensor

The Micom Dosing Auto Top Off is the newest evaporation solution, coming to us from Johnlen of Taiwan. There’s a ton of different auto top off (ATO) devices on the aquarium market these days but the Micom Dosing ATO does…

Kessil A80 Nano LED light now shipping

The Kessil A80 is the smallest and also one of the more interesting lights that Kessil has ever designed. The tiny, scallop-inspired unibody spotlight is passively cooled and an attractive addition for some of the smaller nano and pico reef…

Automatic Alkalinity Monitoring and Control Coming to Apex

Alkalinity monitoring is one of the holy grail parameters that reefers hope to control in our aquariums and the dream is almost here. The prototype alkalinity monitor displayed at MACNA by Jim Welsh will soon be incorporated exclusively with Neptune…

Hands-on With The New EFlux DC Pump from Current USA

Current USA is one of the oldest lighting companies in the aquarium hobby. After years of selling us power compacts, T5 Fluorescents, metal halides and these days LEDs, Current USA is branching out with the original Loop networking system, headlined…