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.

Triton Reef’s big pet Tridacna Gigas giant clam

Triton Reef has been attracting a lot of attention for their revolutionary approach to chemistry and novel water testing service, but behind the company are die hard hobbyists that really love reefing. The Triton Reef reef, is a lush garden of…

Royal Exclusiv RD3 Speedy now available in a 200 watt version

The Royal Exclusiv RD3 Speedy is arguably one of the most uncompromising water pumps ever built for the aquarium and now it’s available in a staggering 200 watt model. The RD3 Speedy first became available in a 65 and an 80…

TMC AquaRay Horizon LED is designed to disappear

The AquaRay Horizon LED light from Tropical Marine Centre is the first light “fixture” to take LEDs to their inevitable built-in conclusion. There will always be a place for standalone high powered LED lights with tons of functionality and features…

Tunze NanoStream 6020 and controllable 6040 propeller pumps

The Tunze NanoStream 6020 and controllable Nanostream 6040 are an interesting take not only on how propeller pumps should work in an aquarium, but also how they should be placed. Both of the new Tunze NanoStreams are characterized by a…

Cubic Aquarium Orbit 20 could be a groundbreaking jellyfish tank

The Orbit 20 Jellyfish tank from Cubic is the first standalone Jellyfish Aquarium that we actually want to own and operate. At just $389 and with some super modern styling and a conveniently smaller form factor, the Cubic Orbit 20 could…

The Show Episode 4: Jake & Mark talk about all the new products of InterZoo 2014

It’s been just about a week since InterZoo 2014 wrapped up another huge conference, and we’re still burning the candle at both ends to catch up on as much new product posts as possible. Despite all the commotion of liveblogging for…

Schuran & Abyzz collaboration creates the biggest Berlin protein skimmer

Schuran is an established crafter of fine acrylic aquarium equipment and tanks. Abyzz is a newer company making high performance controllable water pumps. Together Schuran and Abyzz have collaborated to create, or rather recreate, a classic protein skimmer design, venturi and all.…

MaxSpect Riptide is the first pump specifically designed to create gyre flow

The MaxSpect Riptide is arguably one of the most exciting products released at InterZoo which comes to us from a company better known for their LED lighting innovations. First we had centrifugal pumps, then we had propeller pumps, and now…

Siganus insomnis is a striking new species of rabbitfish from the Indian Ocean

Siganus insomnis is a new species of rabbitfish hailing from the Northern Indian Ocean around Sri Lanka, Southern India and Sri Lanka. While new species of rabbitfish don’t come along very often, the new “sleepless” rabbitfish is well worth the…

Tunze Care Magnet is designed with simple brilliance

Among many things, the Tunze Care Magnet is a reminder that Tunze still has the talent to create new and interesting solutions to problems we didn’t even know we had. We’ve got plenty of magnetic algae scrapers on the market…