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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.

Sensational new pictures show why Gramma dejongi is totally HOT right now!

Gramma dejongi, why oh why must you taunt us with your beauty and your unobtainable proximity. In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new Gramma species which has been discovered living just a couple hundred miles from the continental United…

Stream 5000, Aquabee’s stackable, modular and directional propeller pump

The Stream 5000 by AquaBee is a late but original arrival to the reef aquarium water flow party. It has previously crossed our mind on multiple occasions that it seemed odd for such an established powerhead/water pump maker like AquaBee…

Blau Lumina LED Plus T5 hybrid aquarium light

The Lumina LED Plus T5 hybrid aquarium light from Blau Aquaristic is the first LED product to join Blau’s diverse line of Lumina aquarium lights. The Lumina LED that Blau demoed at InterZoo looked like a prototype but it’s clearly…

Sander Lumina LED spot light is a 250 watt heavy duty workhorse

The 250 watt Sander Lumina heavy duty spotlight is an interesting brute-force design approach at producing a powerful light for aquaculture and public aquariums. Don’t misread us here, the Sander Lumina is not a 250 watt replacement but a high…

Reef Colors Pro test kit from Red Sea for testing Iodine, Potassium and Iron

Reef Colors Pro is a new reef test kit from Red Sea which aims to encourage the proper dosage and testing of color-enhancing seawater trace elements. It is known that Iodine, Potassium and Iron have a strong effect on fluorescent…

Red Dragon 4 supercar water pump from Royal Exclusiv, video walkthrough by Klaus Jansen

The Red Dragon 4 water pump from Royal-Exclusiv is perhaps the highest performance water pump ever created by an aquarium company. Granted, this device is currently as useful as a nuclear warhead waiting for the cold war to come to…

Tropical Aquarium Purifier from Philips is a mass-market ozone generator

The Tropical Aquarium Purifier is an ozone generator from Philips, like the Philips that makes lamps, TVs, cameras and a whole host of consumer electronics. While walking the floor of InterZoo we actually strolled by the Philips booth several times…

Dymax Vortex W-5 cooling fan

The W-5 Vortex cooling fan from Dymax is an attractive hang-on device for use in cooling smaller heat-laden aquariums. The Hang-on vortex form factor is a product with which we were not familiar before a couple weeks ago but several…

Ecoxotic PAR38 LED spotlight in all blue and 12K

The Ecoxotic PAR38 LED spotlight lamp is fresh off the boat and it bears an uncanny resemblance to the wildly popular PAR38 from NanoCustoms. Five Cree LEDs packing 21 watts are available in an all Royal Blue or in a…

NitrateMinus Pearls from Tetra are a mainstream Biopellet

NitrateMinus Pearls from Tetra are the first Biopellet product offering from a multinational aquarium product manufacturer. We spotted these Nitrate Minus Pearls at the giant Tetra booth at InterZoo and it was a surprise to see these high tech reefing…