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.

Mitras LED bar provides full spectrum photons in linear fashion

The Mitras full spectrum LED bar is a just announced lighting product from GHL which will deliver Mitras-like light color and intensity customization in a striplight package. Not to be confused with the simpler Mitras Simu LED striplight also recently…

Centropyge debelius, rare look at the blue Mauritius angelfish

Centropyge debelius is one of the least well known species of pygmy angelfish and as rare as we make it out to be, a few are collected here and there in Mauritius. As you might expect, the Blue Mauritius Angelfish…

GloFish Sunburst and Moonrise bring more designer fish to freshwater

GloFish are cool. There, we said it, and now surely the pitchforks and the sickles are coming out as you prepare to burn us at the stake, but hear us out. Two new varieties of GloFish were just announced, the GloFish Sunburst…

Cherry Corals’ latest crop of extreme zoanthid closeups will melt your face

There are coral macros and then there are coral extreme closeups! Long known for their fancy photography, Cherry Corals has a track record of producing wild, popping images of some of the hottest corals. The use of flattering photo settings…

New Era Aquaculture fish food now retailing in North America

After years of focusing on the dietary needs of public aquarium fishes, and retailing in many countries abroad, New Era Aquaculture is finally ready to make their food available to American aquarists. We have thoroughly lauded many of the different…

Thrive Clam Kit is a bag of TLC for Tridacna clams

The Thrive Clam Kit was released by Thrive Aquatics about a year ago and although it doesn’t get much fanfare, it really should. The Thrive Clam Kit is a bundle of TLC for Tridacna giant clams with three key ingredients…

Book Report: Practical Coral Farming available in an expanded second edition

Practical Coral Farming by Miguel Tolosa is, as far as we know, still the only book ever written about broader coral propagation by someone who actually has experience growing, cutting and selling corals. We first popped into Miguel’s ghetto-fabulous headquarters for…

LeDio RS073 ReefUV, the LED spotlight with a smorgasbord of color

If we had to pick a suite of LED colors to pack into a single spotlight, it would look a lot like the new LeDio RS073 ReefUV. We know some of you may think that the multicolor LED trend can…

Eviota pamae, the newly described sunrise dwarf goby will take your breath away

Eviota pamae is a newly described species of goby which shows that although there’s a lot of beautiful new species being discovered, some more beautiful than others. Looking every bit like a miniature of the coveted sunrise hogfish from Hawaii,…

ReefStock 2013 video by Mr. Saltwater Tank gives a first hand look at our fabulous reef show

The sixth ReefStock this past March was an overwhelming success and at this point it’s safe to say that we have a good handle on this marine and reef aquarium event thing. With 1100 attendees ReefStock VI was not the…