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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.

First look at Warner Marine’s blue-trimmed MF series cone protein skimmers

Warner Marine’s Skimz-built cone protein skimmers are almost ready for release and in these final production shots you can see how Warner has made these skimmers their own. The Warner Marine MFseries cone protein skimmers are based off the Skimz…

Hands on with PO4x4, not your typical phosphate removing media

PO4X4 is a novel phosphate removing resin which at first glance may seem like granular ferric oxide (GFO), but the similarities end with the color of the media. The shape and size of PO4X4 is like tiny little beads about…

Tunze video response challenges the conclusions, not the data, of the propeller pump study

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkW1-6HbQk[/youtube] Make no mistake about it, the video uploaded hours ago by Tunze Gmbh is a direct response to the results of the propeller pump study published a couple weeks back. The nearly ten minute long video first…

Cute mounting bracket coming soon for TMC’s MiniLED 400

The TMC MiniLED 400 mounting bracket is coming soon to elegantly suspend life giving photons over your nano aquarium. Tropical Marine Centre’s MiniLED 400 is a nano LED aquarium light that launched earlier this summer with 12 watts between four…

Cree announces new higher performance Royal Blue LED with the XLamp XTE

The Cree Royal Blue XTE LED is a specially designed diode from Cree which delivers a very strong output of blue light at 445 nm and optimized for use in remote phosphor LED applications. Remote phosphor LEDs are those which…

Black Snowflake clownfish coming soon from ORA

The Black Snowflake Clownfish is a new strain of ocellaris clownfish which ORA was originally aiming to produce when they came up with the black ice semi snowflake clownfish. The Black Ice Snowflake was created simply by crossing a snowflake…

Shore Fishes of Easter Island book will taunt us with a bunch of fish we can’t have

Shore Fishes of Easter Island is a new guidebook of marine fish written by John Randall and Alfredo Cea and published by University of Hawaii Press. When most people think of Easter Island they invariably think of Moai, the monolithic…

Rare orange Fungia plate coral shows up at Reefkoi

We really cringe when we see nearly all orange plate corals labeled as ‘orange Fungia’ corals since the typical, standard-issue orange disc corals are by and large all orange Cycloseris corals. However, we have seen one extra large orange Fungia…

New Era LPS Coral Pellet gets a soft release for initial reefer’s testing

The LPS Coral Pellet from New Era Aquaculture is a new coral food for target feeding of large polyp stony corals. The New Era LPS Coral Pellet will cost about the same as the marine pellet, about $15 for a…

Skkye Light LED from Innovative Marine in 4, 8 and 30 watts

Teh Skkye Lights from Innovative Marine are a new line LED lights with a clamp on design and a modicum of moon lighting. Innovative Marine Skkye LED lights use single one watt LEDs which appear all white from the renders…