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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.

AI Nano LED pictured over live corals and mini reef

The AI Nano LED is part spotlight, part nano-fixture, and all high end LEDs with custom engineered lenses and an easy, intuitive touch-sensitive color control. The combination of the Cree XM cool white and Cree XP blue and royal blue…

AquaSD scores a super sweet and very rare Acropora derawanensis

This specimen of Acropora derawanensis is the first one we’ve ever seen evidence of in the trade. AquaSD received this very rare ‘deepwater acro’ style species from an Indonesian coral supplier who had it labeled at Acropora simplex, but it…

Marine Plants in the Aquarium is a comprehensive website on captive marine botany

When we first heard of Marine Plant Book we raced to the website to seek the details of where this book could be purchased. After poking around the website for a while, we realized that the website is the book.…

Typhon Reef is a small DIY LED controller kit from BoostLED

The small Typhon Reef LED is a simple LED controller for multiple channels of dimming and timer functions for the intrepid DIYer. Priced at just $55, the Typhon from BoostLED can be easily retrofitted into a project box LED driver…

Stunning purple-back nano goby, Eviota dorsopurpurea just described from Papua New Guinea

The purple-back nano goby, Eviota dorsopurpurea, is a stunning new species of Eviota that was recently described from specimens collected around Papua New Guinea. Eviota dorsopurpurea is closely related to the species in the Eviota nigriventris complex, including E. dorsogilva…

Orange Scolymia are in season at Cherry Corals

It seems like orange scolymia were once so rare that they were only seen once or twice a year. Sure we occasionally see scolies with a little bit of an orange streak or an orange mouth but now we’re seeing…

The MACNA Limited-edition Reef Capable LED from Marineland – we’re giving away one now

Marineland has been working on a promotional Reef Capable LED that will be a limited edition silver 18-24 inch fixture with the MACNA logo and a few tweaks to the design. Only about 100 of these lights are being made…

First hands on with the AI Nano LED and mounting arm

It’s been a long time coming but after a year of anticipation it seems like the AI Nano LED light is finally here and shipping to resellers. The small AI Nano really deserves its nano moniker, measuring in at about…

K1 kalkstirrer from Avast Marine now available as a DIY kit

The Avast Marine Kalkstirrer is one of their best selling products and now with the DIY K1 kalkstirrer kit you can save 30% by doing it yourself. The Avast Marine DIY K1 kalkstirrer includes everything you need to start building…

Up close and personal with a Warner Marine MF201 protein skimmer

The Warner Marne MF Series protein skimmers represent at least three years of research in design and manufacturing (that we know of). What started out as the Warner Marine K1 and K2 cone body protein skimmer made by JNS are…