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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.

Aqua Design Amano releases Do!aqua product line

Although Aqua Design Amano products are geared towards the nature-style planted aquarium, there is no reason why many of their products and accessories couldn’t be applied for use on marine and reef aquaria with an aesthetic emphasis. The traditional ADA…

Ecotech Marine adds video FAQ to website

The thorough team at Ecotech has just made available a series of videos on their website which aim to answer your common Vortech questions. WIthin just 10 minutes you can watch all the informative videos and step by step instruction…

Pentax Optio W60 wants to take your pictures, underwater

With a glowing Wired review of 8/10 and at just $330, the rugged waterproof new camera from Pentax may just be our favorite new digicam. This do-it-all little wonder has 5x optical zoom, it takes SD media cards and just…

Prepare yourself for the incredible development video of the Sea Biscuit

A Sea Biscuit’s Life from Bruno Vellutini on Vimeo. We dont even know what to say about this video. The imagery is highly detailed, the stages of the Sea Biscuit are highly intricate and the music is well timed. The…

Gratuitous midweek rare fish pr0n: Plectranthias pelicieri

We spotted this demi-god of a fish at the infamous Greenwich Aquaria. Although this species has been documented from only Mauritius and Southern Japanese waters, this specimen was imported from the Kingdom of Tonga. The video was taken several months…

2008 AGA Aquascaping Contest now online, why dont we have this for reefs?

The 2008 Aquatic Gardener’s Association International Aquascaping Competition is online and available to view. Now although this competition is for freshwater planted aquaria, there are many more reef aquarists around the world than planted tank aquarists which brings to mind…

Reef Life: New magazine in development

Ok so we don’t have any graphics or hardly anything else to offer you about this one besides a link but this much we know. There’s a new magazine in development called Reef Life Magazine. It will be distributed on…

Thank Poseidon for the Fishbase mirror site

Big thanks goes out to Jay Hemdal for informing us about a mirror site to the online fish reference website Fishbase. For some unholy reason the most comprehensive website to all fish uses servers that are made of popsicle sticks…

Scott Michael’s Reef Fishes Vol. 5 on Wrasses coming soon. Free sample PDF available now

Sweeeet! Scott Michael’s epic Reef Fishes series is set to receive one of it’s largest additions with Reef Fishes Volume 5, Wrasses and Parrotfishes covering a large swath of this highly popular group of reef aquarium fishes. This segment promises…

ORA is ever closer to producing all white snowflake clownfish

We have usually been strong critics of the deformity-ladden ‘snowflake’ clownfish produced by ORA but this new batch of nearly all white ocellaris clownfish are another matter. Contrary to what you might believe, this beautiful batch of white clownfish actually…