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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.

Eductor powered biopellet reactor now available in the US

In the latest of a long string of products we’ve spotted first overseas and now available in North America, the Eductor-powered biopellet reactor will soon be within reach for American reef builders. The eductor-in-a-reactor design was first spied at the…

New Mag Float Scrape is available now (updated)

The Mag Float Scrape is a larger, heavier duty floating magnet with a scraping front end like the Mag-Flip. We saw the first version of the Mag Float Scrape at Interzoo in Germany over a year ago when it was…

Tek Wave VHO T5 fixture from Sunlight Supply is finally here

The VHO T5 lamp fixture called the Tek Wave from Sunlight Supply is what has now trickled down to the market from the first incarnation of the intentionally VHO T5 fixture we first saw as the Tek Light Ultra Elite.…

This is why cheap LEDs are not a good buy

So you’ve been eying one of those $200 to $300 LED reef ‘Gro Lights’ and you can’t figure out why it’s so much cheaper than the brand name LED manufacturers like Aqua Illumination, AcanLighting, Maxspect and Ecoxotic. Well in addition…

Maxspect Mazarra LED branches out into the S and P series

The highly anticipated third generation LED light from Maxspect, the Mazarra LED, will be available in two separate types of fixtures, the Mazarra S Series and the Mazarra P Series. We first got a look at the Maxspect Mazarra at…

Magenta and Royal Blue Stunner LED colors look surprisingly awesome

When we first saw that Ecoxotic was coming out with some new colors for the popular Stunner LED strips, we were very stoked about the magenta pink, but didn’t pay too much attention to the new shade of royal blue.…

From the Archive: Montipora, the movie

The following post was first published just over two years ago. We think you’ll agree it deserves another go around. [vimeo width=”680″ height=”475″]http://vimeo.com/5535194[/vimeo] A couple months years ago we had the pleasure of sharing with you the teaser trailer to…

Should we be expecting more from “Tanked”?

The following is contribution from Jon Gordon of TerraReef Aquariums, an aquarium installation and maintenance company with an interest in how our hobby is represented in the mainstream I always try to keep up with current events in the industry,…

Shark Week sponsors livestream of a webcam inside Georgia Aquarium’s Ocean Voyager Exhibit

The six million gallon Ocean Voyager Exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium is now available for your viewing from not one but two live webcams. That’s right, in anticipation of the world famous Shark Week, Discovery Channel and the Georgia Aquarium…

Sneak peek at the business end of the AI Nano

The AI Nano LED light is no longer just a half an AI Sol as the business end of this fixture clearly shows. Whereas the AI Nano Sol initially just included the same triple cluster of LEDs like the AI…