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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 Demon is the first open source add-on to the Reef Angel aquarium controller

The Reef Angel open source aquarium controller has barely been out of the gate for a month and yet it is already gaining traction with third party developers. The new Reef Demon add-on is the first announced project to compliment…

Reef Builders Personal Shopper: amazing reef life you can buy online right now

Sometimes we find ourselves browsing the amazing WYSIWYG of our livestock sponsors and we are just flabergasted at what can be found in a single day. Some of these specimens are top of the line, and you’ll feel it at…

OceanLight T5 from AquaMedic is a sleek, powerful fixture

The OceanLigt T5 from AquaMedic is a sleek fixture which delivers a lot of power for a reasonable price. The German manufacturer which gave Americans their first taste of a stylish European light design is back with a new T5…

New AI Wave LED tube coming soon from AquaIllumination

The AI Wave Beam LED lighting tubes are a very exciting new supplemental LED lighting from the company which has so far focused on a core, high performance LED light. The AquaIllumination light is one of the most elegantly built…

Reef Results: The most respected name in Aquatic Care (that no one has ever heard of)

Listen here, Reef Results: just because you handed out a couple bottles of RR to your friends and they all loved it (because they got it for free) doesn’t make you “the most respected name in aquatic care”.  We took…

Stick in a Box: Tunze Mangrove Box and black mangrove seedlings

We know you’ve been wanting to get something for that special reef aquarium in your life and with Tunze’s new Mangrove kit, you can now adorn your favorite reef with a stick in a box. That’s right, diamond rings and…

Reef Builders invades California this weekend: Brian @ MAX, Jake @ BAR

The Reef Builders staff does it’s fair share of traveling to marine aquarium events around the country but this weekend we’ll be serving double duty with Brian at MAX and myself at BAR. This Saturday and Sunday, the third Marine…

Premium Aquatic’s German 1-2 Glue ain’t your grandpa’s reef epoxy

Two part epoxies are gross, smelly, cumbersome, they takes forever to cure and half of the time the bond doesn’t hold. For this reason we have more or less abandoned using two part epoxies and try to use super glue…

Eric Cheng speaks about flashlight fish and sperm whales at TEDxBerkeley

Eric Cheng is an underwater photographer the likes of Tony Wu who basically just travels the world in search of cool things to see, photograph and film. Mr. Cheng was recently invited to speak at TEDxBerkeley, an independently organized TED…

Domino & Midnight clownfish strains, first images from ORA

The domino and midnight clownfish from ORA are some of this season’s hottest designer marine aquarium reef fish. If you’ve been looking for that new look which will spruce up your reef without making it look fat, you know that…