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.

Leap Habitats Springs Forth from the Founders of Ecotech Marine

There’s a lot of crossover in the broader world of animal husbandry so it should come as no surprise that the company which has been pushing the envelope of aquarium keeping is dipping its toes into the more terrestrial side…

The Price and Size of Frags in 2013 Will Shock You!

You never know what you’ll come across when you stumble down an internet rabbit hole because sometimes the things you find are way more interesting than what you might have initially been researching. Our most recent surprise discovery is exactly…

Coris flava, a New Species of Large Wrasse from Réunion

Coris flava is a new species of large wrasse from Réunion in the western Indian Ocean which belongs to a genus that we thought had been well documented already. Unlike other species of Coris wrasses, the new ‘Yellow Coris’ has…

Top Reef Aquarium Stories of 2021

Twenty twenty one was a tumultuous year by any standard and it was one of the most dynamic in the reef aquarium world. The hobbyist and professional sides of reef aquariums witnessed upheavals the likes of which we’ve never seen…

A Realistic Video of World Wide Coral’s Amazing Collection

One of the most challenging aspects of sharing pictures or video of blue light heavy reef tanks is trying to genuinely represent the fluorescent colors of so many different coral species. Smartphone camera sensors are particularly sensitive to the overwhelming…

Top 5 New Critter & Coral Species of 2021

If there’s just one thing we really long to see every year it’s the description of new and unknown reef critters and especially corals. The prospect of learning about new and unknown coral species is particularly exciting, especially when the…

Top 10 New Fish Species of 2021

We’re getting down to the last few days of this year’s fabulous Blue Harbor catalog which means it’s high time we start rounding up the best news of 2021, beginning with the new fish that came to light over the…

FragEL LED is Specifically Engineered for Commercial Coral Lighting

The FragEL is a unique new LED lighting fixture with a distinctive appearance quite unlike anything we’ve seen in the aquarium world before. The unusually long 36″ FragEL inherits somewhat of a ‘wide striplight’ form factor but its fan-less construction…

Hybrid Birdnest Coral ‘Review’ : Lazy’s Blue Zing

The Lazy Blue Zing birdnest is one of the most unique corals in the history of the aquarium hobby as it is the first confirmed cross between two aquarium strains of SPS corals. The hybrid birdnest was the result of…

Korallenwächter is a new German Auto Water Tester

The Korallenwächter is a new water testing machine from Germany which is designed to automatically measure the most important parameters of reef aquarium chemistry. The company Korallenwächter, bares the same name as their machine, has been developing a new concept…