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.

ReefKoi EvoLed kicks the black box LED model up a notch

Not content to just be slinging generic Chinese black box LEDs anymore, Reefkoi has teamed up with an OEM to take the same basic concept and kick it up a notch. What once was the Evolution LED with a brigade…

Grammatonotus macropthalmus is a beautiful fish from the Abyss

Grammatonotus macropthalmus is a very rare fish which is not a shallow water fish, not a deep water fish but an abyssal reef fish. Like members of Callanthias, Grammatonotus is not an anthias but rather belongs to the family Callanthiidae,…

leaping blenny is like a mudskipper that was made from a blenny

The Pacific Leaping Blenny, Alticus arnoldorum, is an unusual amphibious fish species which spends a lot of time hopping and skipping on rocks. The leaping blenny looks a lot like a mudskipper with strengthened pectoral fin rays and large eyes…

Another Great White Shark goes on display at Monterey Bay Aquarium

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbe0IxI-4A[/youtube] The Monterey Bay Aquarium has introduced a great white shark to their Open Sea exhibit for the sixth time. The Great White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, has a very good history of captive husbandry at the Monterey Bay…

Eco-Lamps Full Spectrum Edition KR93 LED coming soon from 1.023 world and Blue Harbor

The Eco-Lamps Full Spectrum Edition KR93 is a special joint venture between 1.023 World and Blue Harbor in Japan. In lieu of making a whole new LED fixture, Blue Harbor and 1.023 World had the idea of taking a solid…

Aqua Medic Blenny is a bigger Yasha with more LED light

The Aqua Medic Blenny is a scaled up version  of the Aqua Medic Yasha which uses the same basic filtration and design and adds more LED power. It’s pretty obvious that the 1300 gph NanoProp 5000 and Turboflotor Blue 500…

Naso tergus, a new surgeonfish species recently described from Taiwan

Naso tergus is the newest species of surgeonfish which was described from specimens collected around Taiwan. The new Naso species along with Acanthurus nigros are the two latest additions to the family Acanthuridae. However unlike A. nigros which was differentiated…

Thoughtfully crafted NanoBox LED reef light has a lot of character and great specs

The NanoBox Reef LED light is starting to roll off the assembly line, just in time to compete with a whole new generation of great entry-level LED lights like the Slimline S and the AI Nano LED. The 12″ version…

Radion XR30w LED light officially announced by Ecotech Marine (updated with PAR graph)

The Radion XR30w LED from Ecotech Marine has a whole suite of features to ascribe to this exciting new LED light. The Ecotech Marine Radion XR30 is a 120 watt LED light with five channels of LEDs including both Cree…

Oceanos reef book teaches about the ocean in English or Spanish

Oceanos is a book for children about the marine and ocean environment. Oceanos is written by Hermione Edwards and it is available in both English and Spanish versions so that you can share the wonder of the marine environment with…