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.

Avast Marine Diaphragm pump is the mother of all top off pumps

The new diaphragm water pump that Avast Marine has just revealed is the beefiest in the genre we have seen to date. Not since Innovative Marine’s Hydrofill ATO pump have we seen a diaphragm water pump with such high pressure…

PE Mysis Energy Flakes and Pellets coming next year

Piscine Energetics is on a mission to deliver their highly nutritious Canadian mysis shrimp to as many aquarium fish as possible, in all conceivable forms. PE Mysis Energy Flakes and Energy Pellets are the first ever prepared foods from Piscine that…

Zap-Cal aquarium descaler goes beyond the acid bath

Zap-Cal is a much-needed aquarium equipment cleaning product that is much more than a simple bath of acid to remove precipitated calcium, scale and lime deposits. Made by Crystal Clear Aquatics, Zap-Cal has its roots in a formula developed by…

Handmade acropora ‘supercolonies’ intentionally spawned in an aquarium

The story of what Jamie Craggs and friends have accomplished with their ‘manufactured’ mother colonies is nothing short of astounding. Working at the Horniman Museum and Aquarium, in less than 12 months they went from frags, to sexually viable colonies…

Sicce looking to retrofit Shark filters as internal media reactors

We first saw the Sicce ADV internal filter at Aquarama in Singapore but versions of this filter have been OEM’d for other companies for years. Sicce’s nifty Shark ADV internal filter has already been an attention grabber for using magnets to stack…

Join us at Dallas NextWave this Saturday, May 3rd

The spring 2014 reef aquarium conference is in full swing with Dallas next in line to shine this weekend. Saturday May 3rd at the Sheraton Hotel the Dallas Fort Worth Marine Aquarium Society, the same who guys who brought us…

Small size PE Mysis Special Grade available by special request

The best thing about Piscine Energetics Mysis shrimp is how rich and nutrient dense these freshwater crustaceans are, and how quickly that translates into well-conditioned, fat happy fish. The only catch all this time has been that if you wanted…

RoboSnail ups its auto-algae cleaning ability to 1/2″ thick glass

The RoboSnail has become the ‘Roomba’ of cleaning aquarium glass and as of today, we can look forward to the RoboSnail working on even larger aquariums. AquaGenesis, maker of the RoboSnail is announcing a new higher capacity RoboSnail model to…

Nyos Reefer line of high value test kits

Nyos is a budding full line marine aquarium company which this week is making news with a new line of test kits called Reefer. The Reefer line of marine aquarium test kits include calcium, alkalinity, nitrate, phosphate and magnesium and…

Jellyfish Seascapes PICO actually makes us want to try jellies!

There’s been plenty of different designs for jellyfish-specific aquariums over the years but this new one spotted at B-Box Aquarium is really catching our attention. The Jellyfish Seascapes PICO is an entirely new kind of jellyfish aquarium, with a tiny…