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.

Eheim Professional 4+ is the next generation of high end canister filters

The Eheim Professional 4+ canister filter is ‘coming soon’, bringing with it new refinements and features. Eheim’s canister filters are the most venerated around the world with their Professional series being the gold standard for the canister product category. Over the…

Waveline is the newest DC pump to be ‘Apex-Ready’

The latest batch of Waveline DC pumps from RLSS are finally shipping with new Apex ready drivers, and it’s not a moment too soon. All of a sudden, the entire aquarium industry is jumping on controllable DC pumps in a…

Aqua Link pump speed controller to be revealed at MACNA

The Aqua Link Controller is an interesting device coming at us straight from China to actually do something quite useful. Like the IceCap Gyre Interface Module the Aqua Link Controller allows you to get your controllable DC pumps ‘online’, but…

MACNA in Washington D.C. is just three weeks away, are you ready?

The Marine Aquarium Conference of North America is the biggest reef aquarium event in the world, and it’s just three weeks away. The Washington D.C club probably has a lot of preparation left to do but if you haven’t made…

Simplicity Aquatics launches with a skimmer & filter media giveaway

A new aquarium company called Simplicity Aquatics is launching itself by giving away the few products that we know it to ‘make’. The Simplicity 120DC skimmer is another small-footprint skimmer with a controllable DC pump inside . There are no details…

New Butterflyfish poster is the ultimate guide to identifying Chaetodon

Prolific illustrator Scott Partridge has recently created an amazing poster featuring all* of the species of Chaetodon butterflyfish. The Chaetodon poster features 88 species of the beloved reef butterflyfish with each species being illustrated in an informative digital style. This approach to…

Open Source Nitrate test kit is a great chemistry learning tool

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how our chemistry test kits really work, from the inside out, you could consider building your own Nitrate test kit thanks to a new open source project by Joshua Pearce. The guidelines for this…

RLSS R5i is the smallest controllable DC pump protein skimmer yet

It’s been a little while since we’ve heard any news from Reef Life Support Systems so the new RLSS R5i protein skimmer is right on queue. Controllable DC pumps have all but taken over needle wheel duties for many high protein skimmer…

Coral flatworms can even infest our beloved Trachyphyllia

Coral flatworms come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, but if we find them on our beloved corals, chances are that the flatworm is not doing any good for it. The more corals we keep and see and…

Partly xanthic undulated triggerfish collected by RVS FIshworld

Another xanthic undulated triggerfish has appeared on the marine aquarium scene, and we couldn’t be any more thrilled about it. Once again coming from the RVS Fishworld in the Philippines, this xanthic triggerfish in that it actually supports a very…