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.

What’s your favorite piece of vintage reef gear?

The reef aquarium hobby’s not getting any younger, and with each passing day our reef aquarium equipment is getting less cutting edge. There once was a time when the Eco-Aqualyzer was going to revolutionize water quality with simply magnets, and…

Fu Manchu lionfish are reef-safe, especially when they are tame

Lionfish are not the first fish we think of as suitable reef aquarium residents, but this has more to do with their propensity to eat small fish and inverts and the hit their food requirements places on the biology of…

Bacter Clean M is Continuum Aquatics’ take on probiotic nutrient processing

Continuum newest additive release, Bacter Clean M, is an additive containing ‘microbial’ cultures and enzymes for processing nutrients in aquarium water. Specifically designed for marine aquariums, Bacter Clean M is designed to target and clean surfaces of live rock, coral decorations…

CaribSea Rubble Zone is a ridiculously useful product

CaribSea’s Rubble Zone product may be little more than than small pieces of rock in a plastic jug but you can’t imagine how useful this product is to everyday reefers. We can’t even count the number of times a customer…

Exquisite firefish, Nemateleotris exquisita – a bigger yellow version of the purple firefish

The exquisite firefish, Nemateleotris exquisita, joins the small but illustrious group of reef fish which are endowed with equally flattering latin names. Hailing from the western Indian Ocean, the new exquisite firefish looks very similar to the well known purple firefish,…

Another killer SPLASH at House of Fins this weekend (Oct.19 & 20)

The infamous House of Fins is gearing up for another SPLASH event this year and it seems like this one will be a doozy. The world’s best marine aquarium speakers together with a suite of the rarest and most exotic…

Solar Flare Micro LED by Deep Blue Professional

Deep Blu eProfessional, the company better known for interesting glass aquarium designs and more recently a suite of aquarium accessories, has released a new little LED spotlight which hits a sweet intersection of price and value. The SolarFlare Micro is…

Awesome Fish Spotlight: The tiger damselfish, Chrysiptera annulata, from the Western Indian Ocean

Sometime this summer we found ourselves floating on the surface of a shallow Indian Ocean near shore reef when we spotted something bright and unexpected – a brilliant black and white damselfish the likes of which we had never seen…

Avast Marine Vibe reactor is a game-changer for zeolite users

The Vibe Reactor is just the latest completely new product from Avast Marine which is an league of its own, way out of left field. We don’t know what they are drinking over at Avast Marine but whatever it is, the…

Sicce LED’s bicolored light still results in impressive SPS corals

You got to give it to Sicce; they took a very different route with their LED lighting formula and while it remains one of the more exotic LEDs in the American aquarium market, it seems to be excelling as reef…