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.

JBL ProFlora pH Control Touch is a touchscreen pH controller

The JBL Proflora pH Control Touch is an all in one pH controlling solution for the careful addition of CO2 to aquariums. pH controllers have always been an integral piece of equipment for dosing planted tanks and running calcium reactors,…

New Chromis species sighted in Principe, East Atlantic Ocean

Sao Tome and Principe are a pair of island groups in the Gulf of Guinea, right off the West Coast of the African continent.  Sao Tome and Principe are in tropical waters of the East Atlantic Ocean and so far from…

MindStream statement assures us that the monitor is still coming

The MindStream Monitoring System is one of the most exciting products that’s ever been proposed to the aquarium hobby. Unfortunately, this type of sophisticated technology is much more capital-intensive than simply bringing a new LED light to market. While the…

ReefSupplies, delivering aquarium gear to reefers all over Canada

Once upon a time, there could be a great time delay between when an aquarium product was released to the public, and when that product actually came to your local fish stores. With the lighting speed of information and manufacturers,…

Killer shrooms go way beyond bounce and jawbreakers

There’s no doubt about it, shrooms and corallimorphs are the hottest corals in the aquarium hobby right now. But every time a new group of corals gets targeted for hotness, it entrains with it a whole lot of corals that…

Tomiyamichthys levisquama, a large showy goby described from Australia

Tomiyamichthys levisquama is a newly described species of shrimpgoby joining this large and diverse genus of bottom dwelling reef fish. The newly discovered T. levisquama was discovered living in coastal waters and soft bottom habitats of Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia.…

Leopazzo livestreams every reefer’s worse nightmare

Nearly all reality tv shows are mostly ‘unscripted programming’ these days but if you’re looking for some genuine, relatable reality television, Leopazzo’s got you covered. This weekend, Leopazzo, the reefing wunderkind who brought us the Reef Tank Addiction rap video, woke…

ReefStock 2016 is NEXT weekend in Denver

ReefStock 2016 is just under two weeks away and we’re busily putting the final pieces to the first big reef aquarium event of the year. ReefStock started as an idea and a name more than ten years ago and we…

This giant hammer coral IS the aquascape!

The giant aquarium-grown wall hammer coral at Neptune’s Tropical Fish has been a reef aquarium institution in the Denver area for nearly two decades. Generations of new and seasoned reefers have made the pilgrimage to this humble aquarium store on…

Nuvo Black aquariums by Innovative Marine is nothing but the glass

The Nuvo Black Aquariums are a new line of all glass aquariums from Innovative Marine, and that’s it! We’ve become so used to Innovative Marine being one of the major players in all in one aquariums from their Fusion, Shallow…