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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.

USB controlled power strip turns your computer into a controller

Lookout waterproof power strip because the USB-controlled Power USB is here to challenge your dominance as the coolest power strip in town. Like a normal power strip the Power USB plugs directly into the wall but an additional USB cable…

D-D’s seawater refractometer might be the only one scaled for seawater, not saltwater

As far as we can tell, D-D’s Seawater refractometer is perhaps the ever such device that is scaled and calibrated for use with seawater. “That’s crazy talk” you say as you peer upon your aquarium refractometer which was likely designed…

PAR 38 Torch, LED spotlight with 60 degree primary optic coming soon from Sunbrite Lighting

The PAR 38 Torch is a new spotlight from Sunbrite Lighting which will be rocking their custom made 60 degree primary lens for increased PAR and shimmer. Instead of using the industry standard combo of primary and secondary lenses like…

Ecotech Marine issues “recall” for battery backup cables

Recall is such a nasty term, that we hardly think it applies to what Ecotech Marine is issuing today regarding the replacement of battery backup cables. Owners of Ecotech Marine’s new and improved battery backup for Vortech pumps will be…

With Lisa XPG lenses, this TMC Aquaray is no longer riding bareback

Seeing as we got our hands on some Lisa lenses from Ledil for the Cree XP series LEDs, if you know how we roll you you’d know it was only a matter of time before we shoehorned the Lisa lenses…

Frag Stones from Lighthouse Aquatics are great for larger frags and LPS

It’s not like us to single out a frag plug for review but since we’ve been doing a lot of LPS coral fragging in the last few weeks, we’ve found ourselves reaching for the Lighthouse Aquatics frag stones more and…

Coral Rx Pro Giveaway, four chances to win an $80 bottle of concentrated coral cleaner

Coral Rx Pro is a concentrated coral dip that is a prophylactic treatment for a wide range of coral pest and parasites. Coral Rx Pro dilutes down to the same cocentration as the Coral Rx coral dip, but it obviously…

Rio Coral Feeders enable you to get all medieval on target feeding your corals

Whether you are into chalices, scolies, acans or some other group of ravenous heterotrophic large polyp stony coral, either way by now you should have learned that your fleshy stoneys really love to be target fed with little bits of…

Sfiligoi Vision: Cycling through the power levels of this Italian Plasma Arc light fixture

The Sfiligi Vision is a Plasma Arc light fixture which is flanked with four high output T5 fluorescent tubes. The Sfiligoi Vision is the first plasma light we have seen with a decent reflector for the LIFI emitter/burner and it…

Waterproof power strip from wet circuits could save your aquarium, allows for new levels of carelessness

The waterproof power strip is one of those quotidian products designed for everyday use which may as well have been specially designed for aquarium use. Using some special voodoo circuitry, the wet circuits waterproof power strip manages the output of…