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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.

Vertex rebadges WavySea as Mocean 3500 and 2000

If you’ve already seen the WavySeas “wavemakers” then you there is much else to know about the Mocean 2000 and 3500 from Vertex Aquaristik. Apart from the fact that Wavyseas is basically AWOL and their popular oscillating water outlet is…

Cirrhilabrus earlei, Earle’s fairy wrasse pair relocated to Japanese Vessel

Earle’s fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus earlei, is one of the newest and rarest fairy wrasses in the world. This species was only discovered in the depths of Palau in 2001 at over 260 feet, 80 meters deep. The pair of C.…

MACNA XXII in 2010 to be hosted by Orlando Reef Caretakers Association, ORCA

MACNA XXI in Atlantic City NJ is still over a couple months away but the hosting of next year’s 22nd MACNA conference has already been awarded to the Orlando Reef Caretakers Association. The ORCA has already been cutting it’s teeth…

Absolutely Tranquil video of the Kuroshio Sea Exhibit

The Kuroshio Sea Exhibit is the second largest aquarium in the world, second only to the Dubai Aquarium.  There are so many things we could say about this tank but this HD video really speaks for itself. Enjoy.

Aquarium Stimulus Program: Full passes to the IMAC West show

IMAC West is a little over a week away and Reef Builders is hooking up one of our readers with a free pass to the largest marine aquarium show of the summer. IMAC West is the new home of the…

Old ReefLux lamp does the splits

Here’s a note to the would-be overdrivers of ReefLux lamps: If you are overdriving ReefLux metal halide lamps to get some crazy good PAR numbers, don’t. The lamp above may have been overdriven for more than 12 months but we…

Blue harbor shows off some Lipogramma klayi gems

Rare fish specialists Blue Harbor are at it again with a fresh batch of beautiful bicolor basslets, Lipogramma klayi. These fish were caught on a special deep diving mission in Curacao which among the Lipogramma also targeted candy basslets. Although…

New form of OLED lighting very closely approximates the sun

A new form of OLED (organic light emitting diode) has us salivating as much as the Luxim LIFI plasma arc lighting. We’ll let you read the entire post which we have reproduced with permission but when and if this technology…

Hagen’s New Fluval Frontier series tank and stand exudes modern styling

Industry stallwart Hagen has been rather quiet the last couple of years but with the release of the Fluval Edge, the Fluval G and now the Fluval Pioneer, the company is making a huge comeback with a strong emphasis on…

Reef Central is not dead afterall!

Well it seems like some ill-meaning pranksters have been commenting on behalf of RC mods and admins and direct communication with beerguy has refuted the comments that were made and had this to say instead: Someone who doesn’t want us…