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.

Giesemann Aquarium Water Test Kits

Giesemann Aquaristic revealed at InterZoo 2016 in Nuremberg Germany that they will soon be offering water test kits for a range of important water chemistry parameters. Better known for making high end reef aquarium lights with sports car paint jobs,…

Biopod smart microhabitat vivarium ecosystem

Biopod is a new company out of Canada which is taking some inspiration from the diverse number of all in one aquarium available for both and freshwater aquarium systems. We know that this is a reef aquarium blog but every…

Core7 Base Elements and Reef Supplements from Triton

Core7 Base Elements and Reef Supplements are two new lines of reef aquarium additives which take potency to a whole new level. Although Triton Elements have only been out on the market for a few years and they are about…

FlowBox flow meter from Pacific Sun

The FlowBox is a new digital flow meter from Pacific Sun, makers of fine LED lights and LED + T5 hybrid light fixtures. The first day we swung by the Pacific Sun booth at InterZoo we were enamored by the…

Giesemann Viva LED is a new more affordable aquarium light

The Viva is new LED light from Giesemann which inherits much of the styling and design of the Vervve but in a new form factor and power level. Where the Vervve LED is designed to be Giesemann’s hot rod LED…

AquaBee Wavemaker looks like a Gyre pump, but is completely different

The AquaBee WaveMaker pump looks incredibly familiar, but on the inside it is different from any pump that we’ve ever seen before. At first the clear plastic design and form factor definitely gave us a case of deja-vu since it…

K-Series protein skimmer from Aqua Medic

The K-series protein skimmers are a new line of foam fractionators from Aqua Medic that were just announced at InterZoo 2016. The K-Series will take over and replace their predecessors, the Acone protein skimmers, with more than superficial improvements across the…

Elos Stella LED is one of their sexiest fixtures to date!

The Elos Stella LED is a new aquarium light fixture which oozes class and style, in a package that would look great over any kind of tank. The sleek Elos Stella houses a built-in controller, 24 hour timer function, and…

Ultra Reef Macroalgae and Media Reactors will be quick to service

Ultra Reef has an innovative new design for a media reactor with an optional conversion kit to transform into a macroalgae filter/reactor. The design and craftsmanship of Ultra Reef aquarium equipment is uniquely Italian and it shows in all of their…

Gigaflow controllable DC pumps from Rio

The new Gigaflow DC pumps from Rio might have a familiar body and style but the underlying technology of these pumps is fundamentally different. Rio will be making the new Gigaflow pumps in 8 different sizes, most of which are…