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Jake Adams's Reef Builders Lab Tank

Jake Adams's Reef Builders Lab Tank

by Jake Adams
Volume
300 gal
Dimensions
60" × 36" × 28"
Location
🇺🇸 Reef Builders HQ, USA
Established
2020
Tank type
Mixed reef R&D
The industry's most influential product-review platform. Equipment in this tank shapes purchase decisions for tens of thousands of reefers.

Reef Builders' lab reef where every new product gets reviewed before publication. Jake Adams' tank is the de-facto industry product-testing platform — if it shows up here in a review, hobbyists buy it. The tank itself is a deliberately "average" mixed reef so test results generalize.

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Source: Reef Builders editorial

Equipment Breakdown

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Jake Adams's Reef Builders Lab Tank — Full Equipment List
$400
est. build cost
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Filtration
Various
Skimmer test bench
Skimmers under review
Skimmers rotate across the bench for hands-on testing on a real 300-gallon mixed reef rather than a sterile lab.
Lighting
Various
Rotating lighting test fixtures
Lights under review
Whatever's being reviewed hangs here — LED fixtures rotate through the display as Reef Builders puts them through real-world testing.
Flow & Circulation
EcoTech Marine VorTech (baseline)
EcoTech Marine
VorTech (baseline)
Wavemaker
Held constant as the flow baseline so lighting and skimmer reviews are never skewed by changing circulation.
Monitoring & Control
Neptune Systems Apex (always-on)
Neptune Systems
Apex (always-on)
Controller
🏋️ Workhorse
The always-on constant in a tank of rotating review gear — keeps parameters logged so every product test runs against the same baseline.
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Dosing
Triton Triton Method dosing
Triton
Triton Method dosing
Element dosing
Triton base elements with ICP-guided corrections keep chemistry flat — coral response in a review reflects the gear, not drifting parameters.