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.

Reef Mature Pro Kit from Red Sea is loaded with all kinds of pro-biotic products

Reef Mature Pro Kit is a new packaging of additives from Red Sea which aims to bring your reef tank around in record time. The Bacto-Start, Nitro-Bac, NO3PO4-X and KH Coralline Gro found in the Reef Mature Pro Kit all stimulate…

Elos Concept80 is ready to be customized to your aquarium needs

The Concept80 from Elos is a new idea to help streamline and simplify the process of owning a basic aquarium. The highly customizable Elos Concept80 is designed from the ground up to make it as easy as possible to have…

PowerSkimmer200 from Elos is a needle wheel skimmer with a small footprint

The Elos PowerSkimmer200 aka the PS200 is the first protein skimmer from the Italian company which can be considered in the Nano size range. Designed to fit in the Elos Sump200, the PowerSkimmer200 is a needle wheel driven design with…

Super Picasso Clownfish from Bali Aquarich has wild and wacky stripes

This weird Super Picasso clownfish from Bali Aquarich is sporting some very unusual features, even for a captive raised fish, although it does seem to have very good shape and fins. Whereas we’d be thrilled to see just one cool…

Mitras LED name let loose by GHL, as well as its light composer

The Mitras LED light from GHL now officially has a name, and a very fancy light composer that helps the user graphically set the Mitras LED’s color spectrum. Using eight different sliders for the eight different LED colors found in…

AI Vega Color goes way beyond RGB with 8 colors and 20 channels of control (updated)

See the end of this post for AquaIllumination’s reply to our request for more information about the AI Vega Color Hold on to your polyps folks because the full spectrum AI Vega Color is ready to set some benchmarks. Why…

Profilux expansion cards from GHL allow for sanctioned hardware modification

If you are a proud owner of a GHL Profilux aquarium controller computer, you will now be able to modify the hardware with GHL sanctioned expansion cards. Like other top end aquarium controllers, the GHL Profilux III and its derivatives…

ATB uses inverted cone design to build biopellet and phytoplankton reactors

Whether you want to react biopellets or phytoplankton, ATB has got an inverted cone design for you. The company that brought the first conical skimmer body designs to the aquarium market has turned its thinking upside down to bring inverted cones to…

AquaBar LED is a new striplight from AquaLEDs.DE

The AquaBar from AquaLEDs.de is a waterproof LED aquarium striplight whose primary distinction is being made to German quality standards, though it is unclear if is actually made in Germany. Coming in a range of sizes, the AquaBar is built in increments…

New Bubble King Mini 200 from Royal Exclusiv is here to light you up

The Bubble King Mini 200 has been a very popular model and size of skimmer from Royal Exclusiv for several years now, but how do you make its eye-catching design even more stand out and attention grabbing? Why give some…