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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.

Sicce Minu LED brings stylish Italian lighting design for just 249 Euro

The Sicce Minu LED is not just another LED light – At just 249 Euro, the Sicce Minu is perhaps the most affordable high-line LED aquarium light that you can get, as well as a taste of the Sicce LED’s…

Signature Optiwhite glass tanks by Tropical Marine Centre

Signature Optiwhite glass tanks by Tropical Marine Centre are a new line of trimless and braceless aquariums from TMC featuring the high clarity glass all aquarists secretly know they really want. Coming in four sizes, the Signature Optowhite glass tanks…

Panda Banggai cardinalfish is the first captive strain of this iconic reef fish

The Panda Banggai Cardinalfish is an exciting new strain of Pterapogon kauderni which is a huge achievement for a fish which has captivated the hearts and minds of so many fish lovers. Hailing from a huge operation of banggai cardinalfish…

BioStimulant Crush and Liquid from Thrive Aquatics combines the best parts of liquid and solid carbon dosing

BioStimulant Crush & BioStimulant Liquid are two new carbon dosing solutions from Thrive Aquatics which combine the best of what we know about dosing biopellets and vokda dosing. The BioStimulant Crush is a small size bio pellet by Thrive which…

GHL’s Mitras LED lights get a first hands-on look

The GHL Mitras LED is one of the highly anticipated products of InterZoo 2012 and we’ve finally gotten a good hard, close-up look under the hood of this feature rich LED. Multicolored LEDs are tightly clustered under the heatsink of…

Illuminata LED is the smallest little multicolored light from Vertex

The Illuminata LED from Vertex packs perhaps the most lighting power in the smalest package of any light we’ve seen at InterZoo 2012 so far. Measuring roughly at a meager four by six inches and a half inch thick, the…

Hydor Smart Level Control is a simple sensor for automatic topup of evaporated water

The Hydor Smart Level Control is a dead-simple device for management of evaporated aquarium water. The waterproof probe of the Hydor Smart Level Control inserted into the aquarium or sump at the desired level uses temperature difference to figure out…

Fluval Sea PS1 protein skimmer is a small economy internal foam fractionator

The Fluval Sea PS1 is not just a decent internal protein skimmer, but a sure fire signal from Hagen that is is very serious about making a real push into the marine aquarium market. In addition to the Fluval Sea…

Xpando Take-Off fitting from Two Little Fishes turns a larger pipe into a common drain

XPando Take-Off is a new fitting on offer from Julian Sprung’s Two Little Fishes which offers a novel plumbing solution to creative drain solutions. When combined with the Capo grommet, the Xpando Take-Off can easily turn any large PVC pipe…

aCone skimmers 1.5 and 3.0 from AquaMedic use new needle wheel EcoRunner water pumps

The aCone skimmers 1.5 and aCone 3.0 are the first conical skimmers from AquaMedic with high air intake and low power consumption. The AquaMedic aCone skimmers use the also-new EcoRunner water pumps with a well designed air and water intake…