This time of year is particularly poignant for Reef Builders, as we look back to what would have been Jake Adams’s 43rd birthday and look forlornly toward October, the month in which Jake died. So for this Flashback Friday we…
Flashback Friday – Jake’s Love for Hybrid Angelfish
Get into tropical marine fish identification and it won’t be long before you come across the fascinating world of interspecies hybrids. Jake Adams loved hybrids, one of the last messages he sent us was of a suspected hybrid Convict/Polyzona tang…
Flashback Friday – Jake’s love for Butterflyfish
Working on Reef Builders we think about Jake Adams every day, and miss the conversations we used to have with him about all things reefing. Something we spoke about a lot was Jake’s own fish collection, and he would test…
Flashback Friday: When Jake wrote about the Croc Scolies of the Arafura Sea
At twenty years old, with 50,000 images and nearly 15,000 posts strong, we love going back through the Reef Builders archives to remind ourselves just how good some of the corals were, along with the stories behind them. This morning…
Flashback Friday: All the Giant Clams of the World (So Far,) by Jake Adams
Those who knew Jake Adams knew that he had a fascination with Tridacna spp. Clams, and spent years seeking out, collecting, and writing about his favorite, beautiful bivalves. We remember when he messaged us in 2022 after procuring a Devil…
Flashback Friday: Jake’s Green ‘Grafted’ Turbinaria heronensis
The current Reef Builders team are big fans of Turbinaria heronensis, and that’s due in no small part to the love, affection, and numerous column inches dedicated to them by Jake Adams. A green heronensis is one thing, but a…
Flashback Friday: Jake’s love for Anacropora
Those who knew Jake Adams knew his passion spanned all Scleractinians, but there is one lesser known, lesser kept genus that he was particularly passionate about and even got to collect them in the wild – Anacropora. So we thought…
Flashback Friday: When Jake visited Mile High Reefer’s tank
It’s when you look back through Jake Adams’ posts that you realize just how truly reef-obsessed he really was. Not only did he obsess about reef aquariums 24/7 and built himself a coral mecca in the Reef Builders Studio, but…
Flashback Friday: When Jake looked back at 10 years of EcoTech Marine
This week’s Friday Flashback is a double flashback, as this now 10-year-old post written by Reef Builders Managing Editor Jake Adams itself, looked back to what was then a 10-year-old EcoTech Marine. Who remembers the early (slightly noisy!) MP40s, the…
Flashback Friday – Jake Adams’ First-Ever Reef Builders Post!
As we sit here this Friday the 25th of August 2023, Reef Builders has accumulated exactly 14,898 posts, 6862 of which were penned by the late, great Jake Adams. So we thought it would be fun to dig deep into…
