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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.

EcoReef One, a model for a low energy nano reef tank

Ecoreef One is a novel concept nano reef aquarium which features a high proportion of energy saving equipment and methodology. We’ve been using Ecoreef One as a testbed for many new ideas and products over the last year and now…

RF120 LED pendant from Reef Fanatic packs 120 watts of 1:1 reef light

The RF120 LED pendant is yet another powerful, efficient and affordable aquarium lighting product to let you know that the aquarium LED lighting revolution is here, knocking on the front pane of your reef tank as you read this. With…

Hanna Phosphate Checker Review: notable compromises still worth the resolution and portability

The Hanna phosphate checker is a green, egg-shaped hand-held colorimeter for portable testing of phosphate concentration with digital precision. If you’re like us, you’ve probably been wondering how Hanna could make such a small and affordable little colorimeter that could…

OLED Aquarium Light of the future may resemble these flatlamps by Tom Dixon

OLED Aquarium Lights may not exist yet but if these concept lights are any indication, the future of aquarium lighting could be very sleek. OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode and they work very similarly to LEDs except that…

X-Plore modular LED platform for Pacific Sun lights, plays nice with lenses

The X-Plore modular LED system from Pacific Sun invites XP-E and XP-G LEDs and their lenses to get together and have a full on photonic throwdown. In case you hadn’t heard, Cree’s XP series LEDs are the latest and greatest…

MACNA 2011 to be hosted in the Midwest by Greater Iowa Reef Society, GIRS

MACNA 2011 will be hosted in the the Midwest by Greater Iowa Reef Society (GIRS). Congratulations to the GIRS for their winning bid of next year’s MACNA. From MASNA: It has been over a decade since MACNA was held in…

Coral Finder underwater identification guide works well when diving or fragging

The Coral Finder is a new coral identification guide from the Coral Identification Capacity Building Program (CICBP). The CICBP wants to train everyone on how they can better recognize the key features of certain coral groups down to the genus…

True personifer angelfish come to the US from West Australia

In the late 90s, the personifer angelfish from Australia was split up into two species: the Classic ‘personifer’ angelfish from East Australia was named Chaetodontoplus meridithi and the angelfish from West Australia was given the nominal species name of C.…

Io LED light from Pacific Sun is 75 watts of controlled photons

The Io BTEX LED  is a smaller iteration of the Phobos and Deimos do-it-all LED aquarium light from Pacific Sun. Like the other LED lights names after celestial bodies, the Io features top of the line Cree XP-G and XP-E…

Bubble corals featured in today’s release of Advanced Aquarist

Although some people might pigeon-hole James Fatheree into being the Giant Clam guy, James is showing some new colors by writing a great article on a classic reef aquarium animal, the bubble corals. We’ve always had quite a lot of…