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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.

Visit to Austria’s Mega Zoo and their top notch reef keeping department.

The following is a guest contribution from Karl Vankersschaever, owner of Mare Nostrum and a passionate European reef aquarium hobbyist. Summer is usually the time to visit some old friends and to make some new friends. So we went for…

Asian Reef Video Blitz: RGBY LED reef, wild caught marines with no tails, Japanese maiden goby and a nice stand of smooth skin acros

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwbQsoOGgLI[/youtube] Reef Videos are in such abundance on the net these days that we struggle to keep with posting them one at a time. Currently we’ve been building up a nice collection of great reef videos from Japan,…

Alien Eye Spiny Chalice Pectinia at Vivid is truly a unique coral

Holy moly, we have so much stuff to post today we may as well get started with a little eye candy. And by eye candy we do mean this truly unique Pectinia alcicornis which by chalice naming convention should be…

Chrysiptera niger, the damselfish from Tufi, Papua New Guinea has a name

After combing the literature for a name for a damselfish from Tufi to no avail, we were delighted to hear a confirmation from a credible source that this species is Chrysiptera niger. Dr. Hiroyuki Tanaka directed Dr. Gerrald Allen’s attention…

ZooMed Mag Clip is one of the best aquarium accessories ever

The Zoomed MagClip is one of the most useful yet underrated pieces of equipment we’ve ever used. Designed to hold tubing in place, the completely waterproof magclip is useful for clipping just about anything; power cords, tubing, nori, frags, corals…

Krzysztof Tryc’s reef tank system with BioPellets

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V70KV_dZ9UE[/youtube] Krzysztof Tryc’s reef tank system was once a Dream Tank of the Quarter for the ZEOvit system but these days, it’s pimping some nice results with NP reducing Biopellets. About a year and a half since Krzysztof…

Opistognathus hopkinsi: first pictures of a live one from Japan

Opistognathus hopkinsi is a beautiful, coldwater jawfish which has never before been photographed alive. If you thought that the blue spot jawfish, Opistognathus rosenblatti, was the bee’s knees of burrowing, mouthy fish then you haven’t been introduced to Hopkin’s jawfish.…

Magi-Klean pump cleaning solution coming soon from Hydor

Magi-klean is a new pump cleaning solution that is strong enough to remove tough biofouling like coralline algae, tubeworms and calcium buildup. This is only the second pump cleaning kit we’ve seen for the aquaium market with an emphasis on…

Mame Skimmer III: ultimate unboxing of a novel concept aquarium product

The Mame Nano Skimmer III is a very small, practical protein skimmer that is specially designed to skim the smallest nano tanks. The Mame Skimmer is also an expensive, nearly complete kit which offers up more in terms of the…

Blueface Clarion and double rainbow passer angelfish are the highlights of recent Cortez Marine imports

Rarity aside, it would be hard to pick between either the amazing blueface Clarion angelfish above, or the double rainbow passer angelfish below. Both stunning Holacanthus specimens were recently caught by Cortez Marine. The odd blueface clarion was captured at…