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.

Gavita Pro 300 LEP includes Luxim’s latest Plasma for horticulture, aquarium light coming soon

It’s been a while since we’ve heard a peep from Luxim’s LIFI Plasma lights but this weekend at the Denver Indoor Gardening Expo we spotted a new light from Holland. The Gavita Pro 300 LEP is a light emitting plasma…

Kessil’s new H350 LED spotlight features high tech vapor heatsink cooling

We’ve barely begun to review the Kessil A150w LED for growing corals and yet they’ve already announced the a150’s bigger brother. The Kessil H350 LED is a new 90 watt spotlight announced today which uses an advanced vapor heatsink for…

Ecotech Elements Coral Glue is the Vortech of sticky stuff

Ecotech Elements Coral Glue is a revolutionary new cyanoacrylate gel from Ecotech Marine. In a logical progression from making high end propeller water pumps, Ecotech Marine is bringing a new coral glue to market which is more super, and more…

World Wide Corals adds rare xanthic yellow tang and melanistic black tang to its collection of mutants

Move over Casper the white tang because World Wide Corals has just one upped you with the trump card of Zebrasoma mutants: a xanthic yellow tang and a melanistic black tang. Like the amelanistic white tang before them, the xanthic…

Kessil A150w LED spotlight bears it’s guts in a complete teardown

The Kessil A150W LED spotlight is a unique new LED aquarium light which packs a significant amount of value and performance in a small and affordable package. We were fortunate to have Kessil visit our blogging CentCom in Golden Colorado…

Shark whisperer tempts fate with chainmail gloves

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK2LpUoqX6A[/youtube] Okay so maybe you won’t be getting a shark for your reef, nor will you be doing tricks like this diver does, but you have to watch what happens about halfway through the video. We were initially…

RB personal shopper: Lobophyllia and Symphyllia edition

It’s been a long time coming but it seems like we’ve finaly hit a heyday of sweet and unforgettable Lobophyllia and Symphyllia colonies. When the LPS craze first hit with the Acan Lords, and then to other Acans and scolies…

Self-ballasted induction lamps are ready to be your next refugium light

  The induction lamps that we can’t get enough of lately are already available here and there in a self-ballasted package which is ready to be screwed into a mogul or edison base. Both the globe, circular and tubular form…

Dense Matrix Array LED is Kessil’s in-house version of a multichip LED

The Kessil A150w LED spotlight is an entirely new beast for the aquarium hobby. In stark contrast to the barrage of Chinese LED panels we’re seeing that are “made to order” by lighting “manufacturers”, Kessil’s LED spotlights are packed with…

Blue OLEDs become twice as bright, still only 10% efficient

LEDs may be the current darling of the lighting world, aquaria included, but that hasn’t stopped the promise of organic light emitting diodes (OLED) from marching on. In September Philips unveiled an AC-powered OLED lamp, last April we saw some…