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.

The odd clownfish pair that spawned the Black Photon strain

While perusing some of our old videos we came across a feature of the odd clownfish pair that spawned the now-infamous Black Photon Clownfish strain. While visiting Dr. Joshi more than six years ago, we had the chance to meet…

Sousa sahulensis is a new species of Australian humpback dolphin

Sousa sahulensis is a new species of Australian humpback dolphin which was recently described from what is now a pool of four species of the marine mammals. Fore nearly two centuries questions existed about the exact nature of the population…

GHL 2 Doser pricing and details revealed

The GHL Doser 2 is easily the most exciting new dosing pump system to be introduced in years. Following our extensive coverage at InterZoo 2014, GHL has finally let loose a few details on pricing and availability on this groundbreaking new…

Epinephelus flavocaeruleus is an incredibly colorful grouper

Groupers don’t get much airtime in our reef tanks, due to their large size and capacious mouths. But last week while visiting the Denver Downtown Aquarium we saw an incredibly colorful specimen of Epinephelus flavocaeruleus living in a reef display with…

The best MACNA ever is less than four weeks away

The 2014 MACNA committee, of which we are part, has been working its tail off for the better part of two years to put on the Mile High MACNA in Denver Colorado. In that time we have been extremely diligent in organizing…

Coral rolloliths can occur in really unexpected species

We tend to think of most corals as being stationary, one-sided colonies of creatures but in some habitats, an abundance of corals occur as living tumbleweeds. When colonial corals occur as unattached rolling living rocks they are called ‘rolloliths’ – while…

Gardinoseris sighted in never before seen colors

When it comes to little known oddball corals, Gardinoseris is by far one of our super favorites with almost no known aquarium specimens in the reefing hobby. Therefore when we’re gallivanting in the parts of the Coral Triangle as we did…

Mame Design aquarium products now available in US and Australia

We’ve been following the unique products of Mame Designs for many years now and have shared many stories about our experiences with them. Many of the places we travel people always ask us where they can get Mame Design products…

Reefapalooza New York

Reefapalooza New York is the second franchise in the world famous marine aquarium conference begun by the Southern California Marine Aquarium Society. Earlier this year the World Wide Corals crew brought Reefapalooza out of California for the first time to…

Innovative Marine Nuvo Fusion Nano aquariums in 10 & 20 gallons

The Nuvo Fusion Nano 10 and 20 gallon are two new sizes of aquariums from the aquarium industry’s all-in-one trailblazer, Innovative Marine. The two new nano sizes of Nuvo Fusion aquariums bring the same sense of style and functionality to the…