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.

Tetra Connect Automatic Feeder Review

The Tetra Connect Automatic Feeder is the first and probably still the only mainstream automatic fish feeder with wireless programming features. We first learned about the Tetra Connect Automatic Feeder in late 2019 and it’s taken some time for this…

Chromis vanbebberae: The White Tail Reef Fish Gets Elevated to Full Species

Chromis vanbebberae is a brand new species of damselfish that was described at the end of last year and finally puts a name to a fish we’ve long had on our radar. This curious smaller Chromis has been known for some…

Pro Clear Dosing Container with Quick-Disconnect Fittings

With the rapid growth of reefers using dosing pumps to automatically manage their additions of calcium, buffer, magnesium and other solutions, there’s never been a bigger demand for dedicated dosing containers to hold additives. Pro Clear Aquatic Systems is putting…

Deltec VF8000 Top 10 New Features

It’s no secret that the Deltec VF6000 has been one of our favorite automatic filter rolls for mechanical filtration of larger volumes of water. So it was with excitement that last month we learned of a new and improved larger…

Red Sea ReefDose 2 & 4 Doser Review [Video]

The Red Sea ReefDose 2 and ReefDose 4 are the long awaited fluid dosing systems from the aquarium hobby’s leading producer of premium glass aquarium setups. In addition to their tanks and additives Red Sea has been diligently filling out…

Why It’s Concerning That Coelacanth May Live up to 100 Years

The coelacanth may be the most famous of all the living fossils but new research has revealed that the species has not only been around for hundreds of millions of years, but that individuals might live upwards of a century!…

Nyos Torq G2 Receives a Number of Incremental Upgrades

The Nyos Torq G2 is the newest modular media reactor from the makers of the Quantum protein skimmer line which brings with it a wealth of useful new improvements. The original Nyos Torq was not the first modular media reactor…

First Ever Tosanoides flavofasciatus for Sale in the U.S.

It’s been more than 12 years since we stated that Tosanoides flavofasciatus was one of the most beautiful of all the rare and deepwater marine fish and in all that time, we’ve still never personally laid eyes on this illustrious species.…

Is This Coral Pocillopora acuta or a Hybrid with Seriatopora?

Hybrid reef animals are a very common sighting and it is especially well documented in the marine angelfish, clownfish, butterflyfish, surgeonfish, and basically many different families of fish but it is much less well documented or studied among the corals.…

Oregon Mummy Eye Chalice Forgot What Color It’s Supposed to Be

The Mummy Eye Chalice coral is one of the oldest and most beloved of the classic strains of Echinophyllia but this coral has a unique trick up its tentacles. When it was first introduced to the reefing world by Isaac Seidel…