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.

ReefDose Resurfaces in Red Sea Promotional Video

It’s been nearly three years since Red Sea first revealed their ReefDose aquarium dosing pump to the world at InterZoo 2018 in Germany. Curiously the company became practically radio silent about this exciting new product shortly thereafter, but finally the…

Rare White Panda Mimic Tang Discovered in the Philippines

RVS Fishworld needs to tap on the brakes a little bit because they’re fishing up hybrid and aberrant fish so often they’re starting to make them seem common! Just last week we had to agglomerate four different oddballs into a…

Kessil A500X Hands-On and Teardown

The Kessil A500X is the latest reef aquarium light from the company that has come to define high performance in multichip spotlight form factors. The power density of the 185 watt A500X is a new level of lighting concentration for…

How to Frag the Very Dense Branches of Large Stylophora

The Milka Stylophora is one of the most legendary corals in the reef aquarium hobby, and as far as we know the only stony coral strain from the mythical waters of the Red Sea. This purple polyped, yellow tipped Stylophora…

Three Levels of Dosing Setups at the Reef Builders Studio

Once relegated to very niche applications, aquarium dosing pumps have become a mainstay for maintaining proper mineral balance in a reef tank. Dosing pumps used to be very expensive but there’s been so many new dosers released by aquarium manufacturers…

MarineScape LED is a Fancy New Striplight from AquaLighter

The MarineScape LED is a new larger LED striplight from AquaLighter, a company known for pushing the boundaries of how tiny they can make LED lights for aquariums. We’ve featured their nano aquarium offerings many times in the past including…

BYOGuides’ Coral Finder Rolls Into its 2021 Edition

Coral identification could be one of the biggest challenges to new aquarists but even veterans struggle to properly identify coral to the proper genus and species. Russell Kelley’s Coral Finder has been one of the best tools to identify a…

CoralVue Hydros Wifi Wireless Feeder is only $35!

The CoralVue Hydros Wireless Feeder is a new aquarium tool that delivers both convenience and a very attractive price. This wirelessly connected feeder is part of the Hydros ecosystem of connected aquarium devices and accessories but compared to the next…

Reef Therapy Session #2 – Discussing the new Red Sea Reefer S and AIO Tanks

We were really taken by surprise at the overwhelming response we’ve received on the new Reef Therapy podcast discussion that we kicked off a few weeks ago. Initially we just wanted to create a format where Mark and I could…

Xanthotis X Griffis Angelfish Hybrid – Bali Aquarich Creates Another ‘Impossible’ Cross

The yellow-ear and griffis angelfish are two species of Apolemichthys that don’t get much love with the fish fanciers but a new captive breeding first is sure to turn things around. Yet again Bali Aquarich has captive bred an exciting new…