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.

First hands-on and teardown of the Ecotech Marine Reeflink

There you have it! The first in depth look at Ecotech’s window into your reefing home which will put all Ecosmart products on the cloud, beginning with the Radion LED lights. Looking more or less like a local networking router…

Orphek enters protein skimmer market with the DC-powered Helix

The Helix Skimmer from Orphek looks simple enough on the outside but is rumored to have a small but important trick hiding in its mixing chamber. Powered by a controllable white DC3000 pump, the Orphek Helix is a cone skimmer…

GHL’s Mitras & Profilux are the first light and controller pair to get native wireless communication

GHL will be at MACNA showing off how much their powerhouse Mitras LED light has grown over the last year. Newer, bluer LED clusters will deliver light which is more skewed towards the blue spectrum the way that us coral…

Orphek’s Atlantik V2 LED is going big with dual chips, red and blue phosphor LEDs, and wifi Android control

Years of making LED lights are really paying off for Orphek’s innovations department with a head-turning second version of the Atlantik. Out of the box the Atlantik V2 LED will have wireless control that you can use with any Android…

Nuvo Shallow Reef (SR) Series are Innovative Marine’s most ambitious All In One aquariums to date

The Nuvo Shallow Reef series of aquariums are a whole new breed of All In One marine aquariums from Innovative Marine which could shift the aquarium hobby in some profound ways. Besides Red Sea’s Max S line of tanks, all…

Smart ATO from AutoAqua is heating up the arms race of Automatic Top Off systems

Smart ATO is a novel new device from AutoAqua which uses an optical method of determining water level height in your sump. When AutoAqua first hit the aquarium scene with a slew of different ATO systems for aquariums we kind…

Flame tail hawkfish and pink maxima clam are not to be missed at Dr. Mac’s MACNA booth

MACNA may be best known for the release of new products but there’s always some jaw-dropping livestock. This year we’ll all be treated to our first look at a little known and hyper rare species of hawkfish from the South…

Ecotech Marine ReefLink is a go for MACNA this weekend

The ReefLink from Ecotech Marine we first reported on through a discovered trademark filing is real and is expected to enjoy a big unveiling at MACNA this weekend. The first revealed photo of the ReefLink doesn’t show much of the…

Educational video highlights the sustainable side of marine fish collecting in Bali

As we go to the LFS on an near-weekly basis and look at all the near-identical marine fish, it’s hard to imagine that they don’t come from some kind of fish factory, even though we know they come from the ocean. Even…

Neptune Systems teases expanded Apex controllability of AI hardware

Neptune Systems recently let loose a cryptic image with no context which appears to show part of the AI Hydra’s LED cluster and lens. Back in May when Neptune Sys. was working on developing more compatibility between the WXM module…