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.

Golden Clownfish pictures highlight this most exquisite reef fish

The Golden CLownfish of Dr. Chung stunned the world yesterday with only a short, not too well focused video. Well if you thought that was something, just wait until you get a load of these fresh pictures Dr. Chung made…

Ecotech Elements Frag Plugs show up in Ecotech Store

The Ecotech Store started out as a halfway house of spare parts for Ecotech Marine parts but if you haven’t seen it lately, it’s packing quite a stock. The most notable new additions to the Ecotech Store include the Ecotech Elements…

First impressions of the HydroWizard HW42 prop pump

We’ve had a good long week to play and experiment with a sample HydroWizard HW42 from the first production run and we’ve got a pretty good feel for how the mechanics of this high performance propeller pump behaves. To recap,…

Golden-orange clownfish is a wild-collected stunner

What do you get when you cross a tangerine orange clownfish with a naked ocellaris? You’d probably end up with a mess, but in a perfect world where your clownfish-breeding hoop dreams come true on F1 (Like Matt’s Lightning clowns),…

This Reef Kid knows way more about alkalinity than you do

So you think you know sumthin’ sumthin’ about alkalinity? Meet George. George can school you on alkalinity in about 20 seconds flat. Even if this reef kid did just look a bunch of this stuff up on Wikipedia, George does a…

Some idiot planted Xenia on a Venezuelan reef to awful effect

We reefers have long considered Xenia species to be a particularly weedy species in our aquariums. There once was a time when any Xenia was worth its weight in gold but now you’d be lucky to get $10 a pound, and…

Incredible new Edwardsiella andrillae anemone lives on ice, upside down

A newly discovered anemone found living in the Arctic is shedding some light on a really dark marine environment. During some routine tests of their ROVs, some researchers noticed that while patrolling under the ice, it had a fuzzy appearance.…

Kore 5th – Pacific Sun LED diversifies with an Intelligent Doser System

The Kore 5th is an interesting name for an interesting new dosing pump system from Pacific Sun LED. The Polish aquarium light maker Pacific Sun LED is better known for making exquisitely crafted lighting designs, using higher grade materials which…

Disc and plate coral olympics captured on time lapse

We tend to think of corals as almost exclusively benthic, non motile creatures, so its fascinating when we are reminded that corals are animals too. While 99% of the corals we like to play with and culture are colonial and…

BuildMyLED XB Series are ready to really brighten things up

BuildMyLED is ready to follow up on their award winning customizable striplights with a new series which is brighter and more colorful than any other on the market. The XB series of striplights from BuildMyLED uses the latest and greatest…