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.

Coral Food from Cobalt Aquatics will be available dry or frozen

Coral Food is Cobalt Aquatics latest new entry to the world of marine and reef aquarium products. Slated to be unveiled this week at the Global Pet Expo. Any company can grind up some meally coral-foodey ingredients into a powder…

The Show Episode 2: Jake talks with Matt Pedersen about Clownfish

A short while ago we had the chance to hang out with Matt Pedersen, at his house, to pick his brain over a few days, enjoy his decent sized fish room and to talk about all things captive bred, and…

DT’s Phytoplankton coming back by Sustainable Aquatics

DT’s Phytoplankton Farm is an iconic brand that really kicked off the live feeding of planktonic microalgaes in our reef aquariums, and apparently Sustainable Aquatics thinks so too. As a breeder of many thousands of reef fish, Sustainable Aquatics has…

NanoFlow propeller pump from Cobalt Aquatics

The NanoFlow propeller pump from Cobalt Aquatics is a new water mover to be unveiled this week at Global Pet Expo in Orlando. The NanoFLow takes many design cues from the very capable NeoFlow propeller pump but due to size…

Bubble King Supermarin 300 use a combination of constant and controllable pumps

The Supermarin 300 is Royal Exclusiv’s new beast of a protein skimmer with not one, but two of their world famous Red Dragon pumps. The 16 inch diameter body of the SuperMarin holds a cone within a cone, with the…

ReefStock 2014 review in pictures

ReefStock 2014 was a great success for the Central Colorado region and it should give the local community a nice springboard from which to gain momentum leading up to the big conference at the end of the summer. It was…

The Aquarium Life documentary needs your Kickstarter backing

When we were starting out in the aquarium hobby, there was no such thing as a reef tank, it was all saltwater aquariums. If you saw someone, anyone, caught staring at the one saltwater tank in the LFS then you…

NanoBox Reef and Synergy team up for uber stylish nano tanks

Let’s face it, setting up a nano reef is not about getting the most bang for your buck, it’s about dong something special, something unique, something cool. To that effect NanoBox Reef and Synergy Reef Systems have teamed up to pair…

Quality Marine offering LFS a free femininus for buying 100 banggais

Here’s a special promotion from Quality Marine that is exclusively for the legit fish store businesses; buy 100 aquacultured banggai cardinalfish and QM will throw in a sweet, coveted femininus wrasse. A hundred banggai cardinalfish sounds like a lot of money…

Solunar controller for BuildMyLED striplights

BuildMyLED’s efficient LED striplights may be Apex Ready but that isn’t stopping BML from developing their own standalone controller. The Solunar is a simple light controller and timer which allows the dimming and timing of three channels of LEDs; you…