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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.

Romantic Box Crabs star in the cute short film “Chivalry”

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”380″]http://vimeo.com/19147588[/vimeo] This short film about Box Crabs filmed at Stingray City in the Caymans features the kind of intimacy that we usually think is reserved for warm and soft animals. You may think that your aquarium invertebrates are…

This Rainbow Acanthophyllia is one of the nicest we’ve ever seen

The rainbow Acanthophyllia coral we came across this weekend is one of the nicest meat corals we’ve ever seen. We spotted this gorgeous meat coral at Mile High Aquatics in Parker, Colorado and we were impressed at how this coral…

You might be Reefing on a Budget if . . .

. . . you save the saltwater from the LFS livestock purchase, If you see no real difference between base rock and cinder blocks, If your sump is a trashcan, a used trashcan, If your grouper eats more leftovers than…

NanoCustoms LED driver box is a tricked out, multipurpose enclosure

The new LED driver box from NanoCustoms is the most ballingest thing to happen to lighting enclosures for reef aquariums this decade. Using only the highest quality Thomas Research LED drivers, the unibody LED driver is the flagship enclosure from…

Tiny Bongo shrimp look huge in this macro video

[vimeo width=”600″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/12709588[/vimeo] The Bongo Shrimp, Phyllognathia ceratophthalma, is a unique small specialist crustacean that is only occasionally discussed in the aquarium hobby. Related to the larger and more popular harlequin shrimp, the bongo shrimp also like to eat starfish…

Sicce Wave Surfer pulses Voyager water pumps

The Sicce Wave Surfer is a new electronic propeller pump wavemaker intervalometer which allows you to get some different flow patterns with Sicce Voyager pumps. Designed to accommodate one or two of the unusual Hexjet Voyager 1-4, or more conventional…

Shorty buckets of Seachem Salinity shipping soon, three buckets up for grabs right now

Seachem Salinity has recently become of the highest grades of synthetic salt mix available to reefers. Although Seachem Salinity first shipped in a large bucket that mixed up 200 gallons, curious reefers eager to get in on the premium salt…

Reef LED lights has your ultimate DIY LED light fixture

if you’ve been eyeballing commercial LED reef lights but haven’t yet found one that suits your particular need then consider the hefty DIY kits offered by Reef LED Lights. The fixtures that RLL provides through their kits and and in…

Bar gobies, Ptereleotris zebra: common fish are cool too

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek75p9golWc[/youtube] We may spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the rarest fish in the hobby, but we’ve got nothing but love for the bread n butter fish that fill the tanks of hobbyists around the world.…

Gardinoseris Lives! (on the Coral Hub website)

Gardinoseris planulata is a coral species which we have admired for over a decade from the scant images that were then available to view in the Coral of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Like many of our favorite corals species from…