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.

Fluorescent night dive turns a Red Sea reef into a modern day aquarium

The Red Sea is one of the most iconic regions for marine life and home to an amazing abundance and diversity of reef fish and corals. While we can enjoy a limited amount of sustainably collected fish from the region,…

Panorama Marine & Actinic LED strips produce some unbelievably colorful soft and stony corals

The Panorama LED strip light has been around in some form or another for years now, and the Panorama LED fixture really shows the experience that Ecoxotic has gained during that time. Coming in a mixed-color Marine and an all blue Actinic…

Lytro’s Perspective Shift creates immersive aquarium visuals

When Lytro launched its first light field camera in Spring of 2012, we were thrilled with the ability to produce amazing “living images” of aquarium corals and reef tanks. This week Lytro released a software update for the desktop application…

NanoBox Reef “Mini” is a passively cooled cluster of Philips Rebel LEDs

NanoBox Reef’s Dave Fason has been mostly quiet the last half of this year but the time that he’s been MIA has been spent designing and building one of the smallest high-powered LED lights for the demanding nano and pico…

Eviota jewettae & E. pinocchioi are a pair of peppermint nano gobies

As if we needed any more reason to love the dwarf gobies of the genus Eviota, E. jewettae and E. pinocchioi are the latest nano fish to be described. Some of the new species of Eviota can be drab or have…

New Terelabrus sp. Japan brought up from the depths of Okinawa

A new species of Terelabrus has just been captured and hauled up from the deep reef and it looks to be acclimating well to aquarium life. The never before seen Terelabrus sp. Japan was collected at a depth of 170…

EcoSystem Aquarium still going strong on SPS tanks and fish dominated reefs

Say what you will about the Ecosystem Aquarium method but after all these years it still has staying power with a wide range of reefers. First developed by Leng Sy using Miracle Mud as a source of nutrient processing and…

Bridgelux Vero multchip LED array announced

The Bridgelux Vero multichip LED array is a new platform of solid state lighting which may help boost the amount of power we can pack into our solid state lights. Like every press release about LEDs these days, the Bridgelux…

Galaxy Clarki clownfish getting closer to release by Bali Aquarich

The Galaxy Clarki clownfish is an exciting new strain of the ever popular Clark’s clownfish, Amphiprion sebae. Having already developed strains of Picasso Clarki and Picasso Sebae clownfish, Bali Aquarich is developing the Galaxy Clarki clownfish into an evolution of…

Giant Clams live in fields at the Bolinao Marine Laboratory, Philippines

Tridacna gigas, the largest of all the giant clams can grow to four feet across and even if most specimens never reach more than three feet long, the weight and size of these bivalves is massive. Once extinct in the Philippines,…