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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.

Vectra skimmer cleaner from Vertex featured doing a dry run on video

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2burA3zACs[/youtube] The Vertex Vectra automatic protein skimmer neck cleaner was first unveiled about four months ago at MACNA but now Vertex is just about ready to let them ship. The Vectra skimmer cleaner is made up of a…

Bryaninops discus and B. spongicolus are two recently described nano gobies from the Red Sea

Bryaninops discus and B. spongicolus are two new fish from the Red Sea which will probably be followed by a lot more descriptions over the coming year. In preparation for the publication of the ultimate guide to Red Sea reef…

Schuber Wright Safari LED is an elegant 4 watt moonlight or nano spotlight

The Schuber Wright LED is one of the most attractive nano lights we’ve seen in a quite a while. In some ways the he four watt Schuber Wright LED light could serve double duty, it could be a pretty looking moonlight…

ASM cone skimmer doesn’t really stand out in materials and cost

The ASM Cone Skimmer series is a new line of fractionators from All Seas Marine that jumps on the tail end of the cone skimmer bandwagon. Not that we’re saying that cone skimmers are a fad, we enjoy several on…

Red carpet anemone and tricinctus clownfish filmed at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands

Red carpet anemones were once only the purview of imagination and hearsay. Nowadays red carpet anemones do appear in the aquarium trade, even if they can cost as much as a full nano reef set up sometimes. All of the red…

Hands on with the Hydrowizard medium, a pump for the 1% of reefers

The HydroWizard medium is quite an impressive piece of hardware with an equally eye-catching spec sheet; neodymium, titanium, carbon fiber, bamboo, 120 watts, 15,000 gph and €1100 (~$1400). Before we sully up the HydroWizard medium by trying it out in some…

Pseudochromis ammeri and P. eichleri add to the dizzying array of dottyback species

Pseudochromis ammeri and Pseudochromis eichleri are two new species of dottybacks which have just been described from the Philippines and Indonesia. Both Pseudochromis ammeri and P. eichleri are described as species of striped dottybacks, similar to each other in appearance as well…

Coral-Shop aquarium products now officially available in North America via Finsreef

For the last couple of years we’ve covered the unique Coral-Shop products from across the pond first as a curious line of balling and seawater chemistry management solutions. However, as of this week the Sol additives and Profitower dosing pump…

Pharos LED module prototype appears with a familiar form factor and appearance

Pharos LED lights so far have been mostly large and bulky thick fixtures that are more reminiscent of the larger LED boat-lights like the Solaris but a new prototype Pharos is taking a decidedly familiar direction. This new svelte Pharos…

New Ecoxotic RGB LED remote is bigger and does more stuff

There’s a new remote for Ecoxotic RGB LED lights, notably the RGB Panorama Pro LED striplights. This newer, larger remote controlling device is like a souped-up version of the old one, with more color presets, the ability to store multiple…