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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.

Pagurus curacaoensis is a deep-sea hermit crab that lives in scaphopod shells

Pagurus curacaoensis is a gorgeous little hermit crab that lives in very deep water, a live specimen of which has recently been collected by the Curacao Aquarium submersible responsible for all those awesome deepwater reef fish from Curacao. With red…

Eheim UV Sterilizer uses power compact reflector to focus on germicidal efficiency

The new Eheim UV Sterilizer is the third aquarium germicidal lamp from Eheim which features an efficient flow-through design ideal for piggybacking the water supply from canister filters. The third generation Eheim UV Sterilizer comes in 7, 9 and 11 watts,…

Micom continuous liquid feeder is an adjustable, always-on dosing pump

Micom’s continuous liquid feeder looks like any other ordinary dosing pump, it appears identical to the original Micom liquid feeder, but it has one special trick up its peristaltic sleeve – it runs continuously. Whereas other dosing pumps have a…

Libra Vessel from Vertex are thoughtful, stackable dosing containers

What’s there to say about the LIbra Vessel from Vertex? It’s a dosing container with a graduated metric scale built in to the clear viewing sides and the Libra Vessel also has well placed intakes for your dosing pump. But…

AquaSpaceLED 200 from AquaMedic is 200 watts of LED weak sauce

What do you do when a 100 watt LED multichip isn’t enough? Well if you are AquaMedic you find a 200 watt multichip and make one of the biggest LED aquarium lights ever seen. The thing is, at 800 Euro…

Cerebra Multi-Bar power center shows that the Vertex controller is getting closer to release

The Cerebra Multi-Bar power center from Vertex is a clear sign that the company is inching ever closer to getting the Cerebra out into the world. It was two years ago at InterZoo 2010 that we got our first glimpse…

Dosijet 1 dosing pumps from Coral Shop are clip-on and stand-alone

The Dosijet 1 from Coral Shop is an innovative stand-alone dosing pump with intuitive onboard controls and special clip-on abilities. The self-contained dosing machinations of the Dosijet 1 are all built into a cylindrical body with a simple control dial…

Gramma dejongi hybrid is the star of a visit to DeJong Marinelife

Gramma dejongi is a super new and rare little reef fish which we have written about extensively but there has been much less information regarding the inevitable cross between DeJong’s gramma and the royal gramma, Gramma loreto. Right before InterZoo…

Water-cooled Aqua Style RGB LED could conceivably last 30 years

Water-cooled LED lights have been the purview of mostly the DIY crowd but with the water-cooled Aqua Style RGB LED striplight, Germany’s Lumlight brings to market the first manufactured LED light of this kind. The water-cooling of the AquaStyle RGB LED striplight…

Bubble Magus Curve 9 semi-cone protein skimmer aiming for the mini-footprint crowd

The Curve 9 cone skimmer from Bubble Magus takes a lot of aesthetic design cues directly from the Royal Exclusiv Kone Skimmer. With a tapering cone shape, the small hole diffuser, large holes for the baffle and the outflow set out from…