For people living on the coast the sight of green, red or brown waters has become normal.  Over the years many ideas to fix these issues have come and gone but little progress has been made.  Now with few fish and waters so polluted they cause a threat to public health it's time to make a change and improve the health of our coastal waters.  One concept to accomplish part of this large job is an invention called the Mini Reef™ produced by Ocean Habitats.

Ocean Habitats has worked on the Mini Reef™ as an aquaculture device since the early 90's.  The device's original purpose was to grow thousands of fish and crabs.  After over 65,000 hours of staff and volunteer work the initial prototype was developed.   Over 300 failed designs eventually produced 34 functioning systems.

By 1998 funding dried up, research was abandoned and sat idle.  After 17 years of units sitting in the waters of Sanibel Island, FL weathering Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, Charlie the time came to revive this work and help bring coastal waters back to life.

The result of all this work over almost three decades is the Mini Reef™.  There are over 4,000 Mini Reefs™ deployed today with almost 200 million hours of combined time in the water.  This amounts to about 145.635 billion gallons of water filtered and over 6.6 million fish, crabs and shrimp grown.  As the original Mini Reefs™ continue to work away tirelessly new designs are being developed and are becoming available.