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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.

Aquarium Shows
Teco R290 Eco-Friendly Chiller uses a lower impact R290 refrigerant

The Teco R290 Eco-Friendly Chiller is a new water cooling device from the master chiller builders at Teco. It is well known that most chiller refrigerants are not exactly soft on the environment, and this especially applies to the commonly…

Aquarium Shows
Prodibio Aquarium Cure Program treats Spots & Velvet, Bacteria & Fungi and Worms & Parasites

Prodibio, the French company that is the leader in providing pre-dosed amounts of aquarium additives has a new line of aquarium medication called the Aquarium Care Program. Aquarium owners and store operators will both love the display for the Aquarium…

Aquarium Shows
EcoSmart Live offers web-based control of Radion LED, accessible by Mac, PC, iOS etc
With any computer plugged into to a Radion, you can get full control of Ecotech Marine LED lights and Mac users will finally feel the love. As an added benefit you can use your computer to control the Radion through…
Pumps
AquaBee UP11000 Elektronik controllable DC water pump is highly efficient and very quiet

AquaBee’s UP11000 DC water pumps is one interesting not-so-little water mover. Unlike many of the DC water pumps that use the same old modified Laguna motor block, the AquaBee UP11000 is built from the ground up by AquaBee to be…

Aquarium Shows
PowerRoll Filter E200 from D-D is a consumer-grade automatically replenished mechanical filter

The PowerRoll FIlter E200 is an exciting new product from D-D The Aquarium Solution. At InterZoo 2010 one of the most innovative products we came across was the Evo3 Titanium by Genesis, whose booth was conveniently located adjacent to the…

Aquarium Shows
Tunze LED striplight is waterproof and magnet mounted, comes in blue, white and mixed

Tunze LED are here with a very different form factor and definitely straying from the pack. Tunze’s LEDs will come in three colors, the 8810 LED Marine with white and blue, the 8820 Tunze LED white and the 8830 Tunze…

Companies
TIR Lens for Radion LED provides up to 30% more light in the aquarium

The TIR Lens for the Radion LED light is a new lens cluster from Ecotech Marine which gives the Radion XR30w a lot more depth penetration in the aquarium. Ecotech Marine’s TIR Lens is designed with Total Internal Reflection (TIR)…

Companies
Futura LED from Giesemann is a supersized radio controlled Teszla LED

The Futura by Giesemann takes the same basic design of the LED boards found in the Teszla LED and links them up internally via bluetooth. The large flat pane of LEDs that make up the Giesemann Futura are activel cooled…

Additive
ROWA AS VitaCor Life Elements put back in all the stuff that ROWA takes out

ROWA AS VitaCor is a new trace element additive from Rowa Marine. Depending on how you look at it, ROWA AS VitaCor could be either a peculiar or a totally natural product for the maker of fine GFO. The ROWA…

Saltwater Fish
Reef Fishes of the East Indies is a new book from Allen and Erdmann with 25 new species (updated)

Reef Fishes of the East Indies is a new forthcoming book which will be a hefty publication on reef fish from Gerald Allen and Mark Erdmann. With almost 1,300 pages spread across three volumes, Reef Fishes of the East Indies…

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