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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.

Manonichthys scintilla is a beautiful new dottyback from Apo Reef, Philippines

Although the calendar year may be nearly over we’ve still got some new species of fish being described and written about from the other side of the world. We’ve been graced by many new dottyback species, most of them Pseudochromis…

Xport-PO4, Xport-NO3 and Xport-Bio are new chemical and biological filter medias from Brightwell Aquatics

Xport-PO4, Xport-NO3 and Xport-Bio are some fancy new aquarium filtration media from Brightwell Aqiatics which are endowed with some higher-than-usual surface areas. Using some voodoo called ‘NanoIntelex Technology’ the new Xport medias boast super dense surface areas that encourage biological nitrification…

AI Vega relieves the AI Phoenix as official name of the new AquaIllumination LED light

The AI Vega LED light is what AquaIllumination has decided to call its forthcoming LED light which has until now simply been called the AI Phoenix. The AI Phoenix conjures up images of a fiery bird, rising from the ashes, a new…

Two Little Fishes presents Tony Vargas at ReefStock 2012 in Denver Colorado

What can we say about Tony Vargas that we haven’t already said in the past year? The newly christened author of the Coral Reef Aquarium has been orchestrating a breakout/comeback year into the professional marine aquarium scene after being a hobbyist himself for…

ATI Coral Plus T5 tube is a blueish lamp with a little PAR bump

The ATI Coral Plus is the first new T5 lamp to come out in a really long time. The Coral Plus lamp from ATI was made to be a white lamp with a blueish look while still retaining some peaks…

Pseudochromis fuligifinis just described from the Philippines

Pseudochromis fuligifinis is a cute new species of dottyback described from Mindoro Province and Apo Reef of the Philippines by Anthony Gill and Jeffrey Williams. The new Pseudochromis fuligifinis looks very similar to the elongate dottyback, Pseudochromis elongatus, but the half-moon shaped dark…

Elos Aquastudio in Singapore gets an exclusive first look

The Elos Aquastudio setting up shop in Singapore is not even open for business yet we’ve finagled a sneak peek at one of the first of the Elos Aquastudio concept stores. In contrast to the European Elos Aquastudios, we expect…

Albino bamboo cat sharks, born and displayed at the Denver Downtown Aquarium

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TNjM7Y1bw[/youtube] Albino sharks and albino stingrays are remarkably rare in the wild and in captivity and so when we visit the Denver Downtown Aquarium, we just have to stop by and see their two albino bamboo cat sharks.…

Video of tiny radiated filefish turned out accidentally awesome

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8JzzNob9bE&[/youtube] If you thought that radiated filefish, Acreichthys radiatus, were cute in pictures, just wait until you see the tiny one in the video above swimming through one of Kevin Kohen’s awesome small office reef tanks. Just because he works…

Oceanlife Overflow v2.0 packs a lot of features in a tiny package

  The Oceanlife Overflow 2.0 is an aquarium drain and return device which manages this simple yet critical aspect to having external aquarium filtration. Compared to the minimal appearance and footprint of the Oceanlife Overflow 2.0, any aquarium overflow box…