Jake Adams
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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.

Built in Displays are a Total Luxury, and We Love Them

Built-in Displays in reef aquarium gear is one of those small design features that always grabs our attention when evaluating new tech. It obviously doesn’t make sense to include displays in everything but in cases where there is a lot of…

First Tour of the Worldwide Corals Reef Aquarium Superstore

It’s been over a year of anticipation, planning and building out, but finally the long anticipated Worldwide Corals flagship retail location opened its doors last weekend. Worldwide’s extended reefing family showed up for this momentous occasion and we were joined…

Top 5 Favorite Corals Spotted at Worldwide Corals’ Farm

It’s no secret that Orlando Florida’s World Wide Corals is a hotspot of aquarium coral diversity, which is part of the reason we jump on every opportunity to visit. Last weekend we were fortunate enough to be present for the…

Philips Coral Care Gen 2 Coming to U.S. Next Year

The Philips CoralCare Gen 2 LED fixture is an exciting new follow-up to an aquarium light that has so far not really ventured far outside of Europe. Built with, let’s call it European Sensibility’, the Philips CoralCare has long been…

Cirrhilabrus randalli Offered for Sale by Among the Reef

Cirrhilabrus randalli is a species of fairy wrasse that was described as far back as 1995, but so far has been completely absent in the aquarium hobby until now. A pair of Raindall’s Fairy wrasse have just been listed for…

Freshwater Substrate Vs. Aragonite Mangrove Growth Test

Mangrove trees are a popular addition to reef aquarium systems, and we’ve recently focused our attention on them with all the newfound space at the Reef Builders Studio. It’s positively easy to simply keep a few Rhizophora mangrove pods alive…

Orange Starry Puffer is a Remarkable and Gorgeous Oddity

An orange pufferfish was recently collected in Western Australia by Oceans Reefs Marine Aquariums (ORMA) and it’s quite an unusual specimen. What makes the orange pufferfish so special is that it’s not the usual puffer species we see displaying this…

Zombie Clownfish Announced by ORA just in time for Oct 31

The Zombie Clownfish is one of the first commercially available domesticated clownfish strains to be available sporting the red eye trait. Unlike the multitude of clownfish strains which generally have a variation of the white bar coloration, either through its…

Eshopps Colors Series Sumps: Oceana, Aquos, Alpha & Titan

The Eshopps Oceana, Aquos, Alpha & Titan are four new sump lines in their recently announced Color Series of aquarium sumps. In a very short period of time we’ve seen marine aquarium sumps go from a commoditized, basic box design…

Vanderhorstia dawnarnallae, Wicked New Species of Shrimp Goby Described

Vanderhorstia dawnarnallae is a beautiful and colorful new species of shrimp goby recently described in the Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. Discovered in the far eastern reaches of Indonesia also known as West Papua, Dawn’s Shrimp Goby is the…