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.

We feed our fish ALL of the best fish foods

As many new foods that come along in the marine aquarium hobby, many of them touting to be “The Best”, it’s hard to know which food you should feed your fish. In all reality, many of the top fish food…

Reef Record is creating huge transecting panoramas of the world’s reef

Ever dreamed of visiting and exploring a coral reef from the comfort of your own home? Well next to having a proper reef tank, the best thing is a new development of the Caitlin Seaview Survey which is documenting a…

Pygmy Angel Formula is loaded with juicy sponge and algae

Ocean Nutrition’s Pygmy Angel Formula is a new frozen food recipe which is aimed squarely at the flames, coral beauties, and similar species of dwarf angelfishes. Based off of the most recnt understanding about the diet of Centropyge species, the…

Centropye nahackyi found swimming far from home in Hawaii

Centropyge nahackyi is a super rare marine angelfish from the Pacific Ocean which is occasionally found in Hawaii, but isn;t really considered a Hawaiian species. A small, young juvenile specimen has recently been discovered swimming on a Hawaiian reef where…

Zeovit Coral Snow is awesome but it’s not what you think

Coral Snow is a unique product from Korallen-Zucht, the makers of Zeovit, which is part aquarium water clarifier and part ‘biological facilitator’ for elements in the water column. We don’t know what that last part means exactly, but Coral Snow…

AquaMedic PhosphatFilter Fe comes pre-loaded with coarse GFO

The PhosphatFilter Fe is a newer reef aquarium accessory from AquaMedic which has enough merit to go head-to-head with media reactors. In addition to being preloaded with AquaMedic’s own take on granular ferric oxide (GFO), the PhosphatFilter Fe is smaller, uniquely…

Yellow Fin Anthias successfully reared from wild collected eggs by RCT Hawaii

If you are a fan of Odontanthias, those large colorful anthias that love living in the deep, then here’s a little bitty to convince your significant other that you need more than one. Marine fish culturists extraordinaire Frank Baensch recently became…

Pomacentrus micronesicus – a new damselfish species from the Marshall Islands

As it there weren’t enough blue damselfish to confuse us on identification, along comes Pomacentrus micronesicus to add one more species to the mix. Identified from ten specimens collected around Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the new Micronesian damselfish is…

New Thrive Water Lab video give users a taste of automated water testing

Thrive Aquatics has just released a video walkthrough of the forthcoming Thrive Water Lab water testing kiosk. Due to begin popping up in some of the swankier stores around the country any day now, the Thrive Water Lab had its…

AquaMedic AB Reef Salt mix available again in North America

AquaMedic North America has been making a real come back on this side of the pond over the last few years, and the latest push is in the salt mix space. AB Reef Salt has been made by AquaMedic for…