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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.

Radion XR30w PRO from Ecotech Marine to be revealed at MACNA

The Radion XR30w PRO is Ecotech Marine’s next-generation version of the wirelessly controlled Radion XR30w LED light fixture. The Radion XR30w PRO will come standard with the Total Internal Reflection (TIR) Lens and will also be populated with more and differently colored…

Goldflake Maroon Clownfish from ORA available now, solid gold in the future

The Goldflake Maroon Clownfish is the latest and greatest new clownfish strain from the trailblazing fish breeders over at Oceans, Reef & Aquariums. Other breeders such as Mike Hoang have been producing similar fish called goldflake maroon clownfish, which is…

Centropyge shepardi from Guam are the real deal mango angelfish

Centropyge shepardi is a unique angelfish from Guam which hasn’t been seen in the trade for many, many years. Once upon a time the mango angelfish was exported from the West Pacific U.S. territory in such numbers that you could usually…

Manta ray video gives a rare glimpse at deeper Bali coral habitat

The author of this video thought they were just filming the beautiful motion of a manta ray swimming, gliding through Indonesian waters. But what we see in this video is an incredible tour of Bali where coral cover is pretty…

Ichthyology and Facebook intersect to turbocharge fish identification

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”450″]http://vimeo.com/48909830[/vimeo] Just when we were beginning to think that Facebook was only good for virtual farming, viral memes and keeping tabs on your frenemies, a new story about the social networking giant instills hope for the usefulness of having a…

New version of Kuiter’s wrasse bible ‘Labridae Fishes’ now available for a whole lot less

Despite its original $300+ price tag Rudie Kuiter managed to sell quite a few copies of his fabulous compendium on wrasses, Labridae Fishes. The hardbound work of devotion to wrasses has over 400 A4 pages covering more than 500 species…

EcoSmart Live BETA launches for select Radion users, we go hands-on

Back in May while covering InterZoo 2012 we shared the first look at Ecotech Marine’s newest control solution for the Radion LED called EcoSmart Live. After months of refinement Ecotech Marine is just beginning to open up the use of Ecosmart…

Reef Culture Technologies dabbles in rearing reef fish from wild harvested eggs

Reef Culture Technologies recently announced the successful rearing of several species of marine fish which were not spawned in aquaria, but whose eggs were collected from the Ocean. Since RCT is based in Hawaii they have good access to lots…

Visit Marineland and Two Little Fishes MACNA booths for freebies

Like any good card-carrying industry trade show, MACNA 2012 will feature lots of free goodies from a host of various vendors and exhibitors. In addition to the free samples, buttons and the like, both Two Little Fishes and Marineland have…

Sea spider video shows Pycnogonids like never seen before

Sea Spiders are widespread in the ocean and on coral reefs yet we hardly, almost never, encounter them in our reef aquariums. We can think of just a couple of times seeing the lone sea spider walking along some fresh live rock…