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.

MaxSpect Razor Nano LED specs revealed: 60 watts, new mount and three colors

The MaxSpect Razor Nano LED is the logical svelte new size of the value-leading MaxSpect Razor. Using the same overall design of perforated wings that allow passive airflow for heatsinking, the Razor Nano is likely the thinnest high output LED…

ReefAPalooza Orlando Florida officially on the books for April 26 & 27, 2014

Hold on to your hats Reef World, because ReefAPalooza Orlando Florida is now officially official. ReefAPalooza with its nearly 4500 attendees in 2012 is by far the best attended and one of the largest marine aquarium events in the world.…

ORA Green Planet Acropora is ready to invade your SPS reef

ORA’s new Green Planet acro is the latest new stony coral release from Oceans Reef & Aquariums which is grown out at their Florida facility. Bearing much resemblance to the famous ORA Red Planet table acro, the green planet is…

Eheim StreamON pump: German icon finally makes a propeller style water mover

Eheim is finally getting into the market for propeller water pumps with the development of their new Eheim StreamON and Eheim StreamON+ line. The Eheim StreamON and StreamON+ pumps are shaped like a Tee of PVC and attached to a…

Bleeding Apple Australomussa is the Mother of all ‘Mussas

Holy Wow, mother of all that is Reef and Holy would you take a look at this Australomussa rowleyensis, the Mother of all Mussas. We’ve long been a fan of Australomussa, especially since they began being collected from Timor Indonesia. The…

Silverback Gorilla is the perfect backup battery for travelling and outages

The makers of the Silverback Gorilla are touting that the new backup battery will keep a laptop running a full extra day but we have other applications in mind. With ports for outputing AC and DC power via conventional outlets…

Evolution’s newest LED light will be a monster with Multichip diodes

ReefKoi has just sent over these images of the next Evolution LED light they are working on, and man this thing is going to be a Hoss! The fixture of the new EvoLed has a heavy duty all-aluminum construction which is a radical departure…

Eviota nigramembrana, black membrane dwarf goby is newly described treasure

The black membrane dwarf goby, Eviota nigramembrana, is a new species of reef fish that packs a lot of color in a tiny package. Recently described by Greenfield & Suzuki in ZooTaxa, Eviota nigramembrana was discovered living on reefs of southern…

World Wide Corals, we salute you and your (in-store) livestock policy

Have you ever seen a more beautiful sight than the one above? If you’ve spent any time working in the retail setting of the aquarium world, as we have for over ten years, then the posting will come as quite…

AquaMedic measuring AquaSpoon is surprisingly versatile and useful

The idea of a measuring device which handles both volumes and mass simulataneously is so profound for the dosing of certain aquarium additives that we are shocked this device is not being received with much more fanfare. The AquaMedic AquaSpoon…