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: Jake’s love for Plectranthias
When Jake passed away, a lot of tributes said he was a coral man, but if you knew him he would have just as many conversations with people about marine fish. He loved them all, especially the rare ones, and…
Jake Adams Everlasting Enthusiasm
Like many distressed aquarists, I’ve found solace in times of anguish. During those times when you can’t even look at your aquarium. Think of it as, “reef depression”. When it seems as if all inspiration is gone. Then you finally…
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…
Jake Adams Receives 2023 MASNA Award
The Marine Aquarium Societies of North America has posthumously honored Reef Builders Managing Editor Jake Adams with the 2023 MASNA Award. In a statement released today, MASNA said that each year it recognizes individuals who have stepped forward in unique…
Jake Adams, Celebration of Life Dive Trip
This year, we commemorated the first anniversary of our great friend’s passing. The coral feast that I had planned to show him and that was left unfinished, ended up into another great adventure celebrating Jake’s coral love with other great…
When Jake first took on the Reef Builders Studio
It’s hard to believe it has been five years now since Managing Editor Jake Adams first introduced us to the Reef Builders Studio. To say he was excited, or like a kid in a candy store doesn’t even cover it,…
