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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.

Reef Foundation A, B, C and Complete are ratio-based supplements from Red Sea

Reef Foundation is a new line of supplements from Red Sea which aim to replenish the minerals of reef aquarium water with a strong emphasis on maintaining specific ratios. Sure we’re all aware that our reef aquarium chemistry needs to…

LeDio Mystery Purple and NanoCustoms PAR 38 LED spotlights tango in these videos of azoox corals

The Ledio Mystery Purple LED spotlight from Volx Japan is one which we compared to many LED spotlights including the PAR 38 lamp from NanoCustoms which will be familiar to new and old Reef Builders readers alike. The Mystery purple…

Sparisoma rocha is a new parrotfish species from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean

Sturisoma rocha is a new species of Brazilian parrotfish which was recently described from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. The six specimens of S. rocha were collected from Trindade Island off of Southeastern coast of Brazil and they differ from other…

C-Series Fluval power filter from Hagen now with lots of stages

The Fluval C series power filter has so many filtration stages that it’ll make you think twice about your sump or wet-dry. Ok, we wouldn’t go that far with the C series power filter but even though Hagen has usually…

Video of dancing RGBY LEDs of the Mame Eco-Light

The RGBY LEDs of the Mame Eco Light are truly something when it comes to dialing in the color and spread on your reef tank. The video we produced at InterZoo of the Eco Light was only doing a demo…

Frozen Calanoid copepods from Reef Scientific have their enzymes neutralized to preserve nutrition

The frozen Calanoid copepods from Reef Scientific is an ordinary fish food that goes through extraordinary amount of preparation to preserve nutritional quality. We’ve never given much thought to how a copepod gets from harvest to the home to be…

Multicontrol 8 for the Aquaray LEDs coming soon from Tropical Marine Centre

The Multicontrol 8 for AquaRay LED lights is a combination controller-dimmer and power supply all in one. The Multicontrol 8 can support up to eight Aquaray 500 or Aquabeam 500 LED strips, four of the Aquaray or Aquabeam 1000 LED…

Hands-on with the Mame Nano Overflow, the Lily Pipe of reef aquariums

The Mame Nano Overflow is one of the most luscious piece of hardware ever built or conceived for the marine aquarium. That may sound hyperbolic but we make no claim to hide our fanfare for this very creative Mame Design…

NanoSun 15 watt multichip LED spotlight from Econlux

The NanoSun fromEconlux is a multichip LED spotlight that brings a 15 watt photon engine to the court of reefing. If you’ll recall, Econlux, is the company which made a big showing at InterZoo 2010 with it’s SinglePower 100 watt…