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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.

ZEOvit’s Dream Tank of the Quarter is a Masterpiece from Poland

Now you know that since the crew over at ZEOvit.com only pick a worthy tank to feature every quarter it has to be at least three times better than most of your typical TOTM. The second Zeovit Dream Tank of…

We’re taking Reef Builders to the reef crest

Longtime Reef Builders readers will notice no small amount of changes around the site lately. We always knew that we wanted to take this “Blog” thing to the next level and we’ve been working long and hard behind the scenes…

Polyp & Ephyra Combo System from Jelliquarium is a world’s first

The Polyp & Ephyra Combo System is a very unique new product from the makers of the Jelliquarium. The mere fact that the hobby is already moving beyond just keeping jellyfish to actually breeding them says a lot about how…

New Isidella bamboo coral video

No sooner do we report on some really darn old corals that we come across this close up and intimate video of an ROV getting all up in the personal space of an Isidella bamboo coral. The video was made…

iPhone wallpapers of rare marine fish

Calling all the iReefers out there, here’s a small sampling of wallpapers for your iPhone or iPodTouch. The four rare reef fish featured in these images are some of the most popular and highly sought species for the marine aquarium.…

Rare Fish video collection

Here is a gratuitous, end of the week, rare fish video collection to help everyone put a good cap on the end of the week. The videos we have for you this fine friday include a true map puffer, wrought…

Jumbo Gem Tang splayed out in pix

You know, we’ve seen more than a handful of small gem tangs but the cost/desire ratio just hasn’t made us want one. However, now that we’ve seen these pics from a Just Rare Fish of what a full blown adult…

Blue OLED tech gets a 25% efficiency boost

The Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) is one of the newer lighting technologies which promises to revolutionize the lighting world. There are many different types of OLEDs in everyday devices from cell phones and media players to backlighting applications. At…

Acropora rongelapensis, a recently described species from Marshall Islands

While skimming some literature we came across the coral name Acropora rongelapensis, which we had never heard before. A few minutes of sleuthing and the original description provided us with all the details of this new Acropora species described in…