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.

Predatory Ricordea yuma comes to life in time lapse feeding video

We are graced today with a second exceptional marine aquarium video, this time featuring a Ricordea chomping on some pelleted coral food. We’ve all seen videos of LPS corals mowing down pelleted food, Scolies are exceptionally fun to do this with since…

Gyractor G400 takes spinning biopellets to a miniature level

The Gyractor G400 is a new smaller model of the spinning biopellet reactor from Arcadia. The original Gyractor was the G1000 is on the big side, and might have been a wee bit overkill with its 23 watt Syncra Silent 1.5…

Video tour of the Triton Reef and more will leave your jaw on the floor

You know we feature a lot of different reef tank videos and usually they display only a single slammin reef tank. This is a different matter altogether as Mr. Jawsee has seen fit to take his video camera along for…

Sunleaves Power Matrix is the power strip of our dreams

The Power Matrix 8-outlet power strip from Sunleaves is one of the most exciting electrical appliances we’ve ever seen. We’re already swooning for just about any power strip that has a straight eight outlets but not only does the Sunleaves…

E-Jelly and LED bait for the Giant Squid win

After years of searching for live giant squid and hoping to film them in their natural habitat, who would have thought that LEDs in artificial jellyfish known as E-Jelly would be part of the trick to reeling one in. Last…

NutriDiet Flake foods from Seachem for Marine, Tropical, Cichlids & Goldfish

NutriDiet Flake foods from Seachem have been a long time coming. Following on the releases of other specialty foods and additives like the NutriDiet Mealworms, GarlicGuard and Entice, it was probably just a matter of time until Seachem entered the…

Up close and personal with Synchiropus occidentalis

To be perfectly honest, our first look at the West Australia Dragonet appeared to show a species which bears a lot of similarities to the common green target mandarin. The Dragonet from West Australia is sometimes classified as the unique…

Cubic Aquarium looks to Polyplab for distribution in the American market

There’s been a lot of hustle and bustle at Polyplab lately with the release of Reef-Roids Nano and Orca Labs NitraGuard BioCubes and now they’re going for the jellyfish tank market. Polyplab has been named the exclusive North American distributor…

120R1 Saltwater Aquatics LED has a little of everything

The 120R1 LED fixture from Saltwater Aquatics is an interesting light with a fairly tame design but a whole lot of different features. Seven colors of LEDs are distributed across four channels although one channel is all white, two other…

Industry trailblazers Clive Bentley and Chris Turnier will be ReefStock’s Saturday speakers

ReefStock 2013 is fast approaching so it’s time to let ya’ll know who’ll be speaking and why these are the best guys for the job this year. We are incredibly pleased this year to expand to two days, with Clive…