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.

Bulk Reef Supply is breaking all the rules for Black Friday

Bulk Reef Supply is entertaining a temporary lapse of business logic today with unheard of prices, discounts and rebates. As if Ryan going through the BRS warehouse breaking stuff wasn’t enough, they are pulling all the stops when it comes…

A whole new crop of Pipeless skimmers are ready for the world

CAD Lights made a big splash last year when they introduced the first ever Pipeless protein skimmers and they have steadily nurtured this end of their product line. The Pipeless skimmer line began with the humble PLS100 and has steadily…

New Tridacna species, one of these Maxima clams is not like the others

There’s a new species of Tridacna giant clam that scientists have just “discovered” but guess what? Us reefers saw and noticed a unique clam species many years ago. The new Tridacna sp. has not been formally described but was discovered in…

Overview of all the new features in the Red Sea Max C Series

After several years of being the clear front-runner in the medium to large size All In One marine aquarium in the hobby, Red Sea is ready to take their Red Sea MAX series to the next level. As we touched…

Plasmalyte’s Sunstream 400 Plasma ready for mainstream price and performance

It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard any news from plasma lighting but the the Plasmalyte Sunstream 400 is fixin to lodge it firmly back in your ear. Reef Builders has the privilege of being first to announce the…

Aquatouch does in-store aquarium displays like they mean it

You local aquarium fish store should be above all, a place for new and old aquarists alike to go and find inspiration for bettering their tanks. In addition to educating about new products and exotic livestock, having some slamming display…

Automatic frozen fish food feeder is in the running for best DIY project ever

While in Phoenix, as we do wherever we go, we went on a tour of tanks and stores in the area and came across something truly unique. We’ve seen our fair share of awesome private tanks, killer equipment rooms and…

The Golden Hamlet is one of the crown jewels of Caribbean reef fish

As close as we Americans live to the Caribbean Sea, we are woefully under-informed as to the wealth of beautiful corals and reef fish that live there. Case in point is the jaw-dropping gorgeous golden hamlet, Hypoplectrus gumigutta which Japanese and…

Kamoer dosing pump review

The Kamoer dosing pump machine is a system of peristaltic pumps not unlike many we have seen before. Most similarly, the Kamoer and Bubble Magus have a lot of features in common, including three master units to control slave units…

On location for the first ever unboxing of the Nuvo Shallow Reef aquarium

Just under two weeks ago we swung by the offices of Innovative Marine and happened to stop by just in time to check out their first shipments of production made Nuvo Shallow Reef aquariums. Now we specify “production-made” because the…