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.

AI Vega Review: the promise of LEDs is available now

The last six months have seen a flurry of next generation LED light being released with the AI Vega firmly in the vanguard of that pack. First announced over 18 months ago, there has been a great deal of expounding…

Auto ZR Zeovit Reactor video reveals unique zeolite tumbling technique

Last week we shared with you the peculiar Auto ZR zeolite reactor from Perfect Reef Systems (PRS)and with no Japanese-reading skills to speak of, we deduced that the device was designed to bounce zeolite to dislodged biofilms. Correctly. There’s not…

Coralline Clam: New cryptic giant clam species is a perfect coralline algae mimic

The Coralline Clam is a new species of Tridacna giant clam has been found living in plain sight on the shallow reefs of the Solomon Islands. The very unusual clam species was discovered by Julian Sprung on some recent shallow…

JNS Omega Biopellet Reactor uses vertical churning

Omega Biopellet Reactors are new devices from JNS which take the conventional biopellet fluidizer and turn it on its side. Very similarly to the Coral Shop Denistar product, the JNS Omega reactor uses a kreizel-like design of a disc on…

Kevin Kohen’s Picasso clownfish are the pinnacle of designer perculas

Imagine that we didn’t live in a world with designer clownfish, no platinums, no perculas and no snowflakes either. If we lived in that world and you happened to see this pair of Picasso percula clownfish in the offices of LiveAquaria you…

Awesome Fungiid is either Podabacia or a special form of Lithophyllon

Podabacia is a very unique genus of disc corals which is hardly never seen in the aquarium trade, let alone in any interesting color. How are lucky are we then that we stumbled upon an amazing colony of Podabacia motuporensis, in…

Cree XQD LED – unprecedented brightness in a tiny package

The X-Lamp XQD LED is Cree’s teeny tiniest high powered LED to date. The tiny package pictured above is a mere 1.6mm by 1.6mm, with almost half the surface area of the blinding Cree XP and XT LED packages. The…

Elos PowerSkimmer announced in four more sizes

The Elos PowerSkimmer family just grew from one to five with the announcement of four new models to compliment the Elos PS200. Along with the entry level PowerSkimmer 200, Elos announced the PS1000, PS2000, PS4000 and PS6000 which are all…

Sustainable Aquatics cultured corals coming soon

With a firm mind share of the captive bred aquarium fish market Sustainable Aquatics is now turning its attention to providing cultured corals. For the past couple of weeks Sustainable Aquatics has been teasing a variety of medium sized frags…

PRS Automatic Zeovit Reactor bounces zeolites to shake off biofilms

The PRS ZR Auto Zeovit Reactor is a mysterious peculiar product on which we have very little to go on. As far as we can tell the automatic PRS ZR zeovit reactor shakes the large zeovit rocks by actuating the…