Marine restoration efforts have led to many novel artificial reef creations, designed to rebuild damaged or depleted underwater ecosystems. Granted, when it comes to artificial reef solutions, some approaches are better than others. We contend reef balls offer the most effective method, and we’d like to elaborate why.

Primary Reasons Reef Balls are Better Than Other Artificial Reefs

Toxin-Free Materials – The construction of artificial reefs can involve a variety of materials. However, when you select our reef ball habitats, you have our assurance that they’re made with sea-life-friendly materials, free of PCBs (poly chlorinated biphenyls). This means they don’t pose a health risk to ocean biology (which would be entirely counterproductive). While some artificial reef makers will utilize old ship parts to create habitats, this can cause problems if the salvaged equipment contains toxic residue, copper, iron, or chromium.

Reef Balls Remain in Place – The last thing you want is for your reef habitats to shift around the next time a hurricane rolls through the area. It takes too much time, effort, and money to deploy large objects, only to see them swept away or damaged. Therefore, it helps to invest in dense reef balls, which anchor easily to the ocean floor. We even make some of them that weigh a ton with a base greater than six feet long (Goliath Reef Balls).

Optimal Habitat for Aquatic Life – It’s also important to establish a legitimate habitat for marine life, if you expect your restoration endeavor to bear fruit. That’s why our products have plenty of intricate holes and entryways all throughout them. Those also provide for the free flow of current and light; essential ingredients for regrowing coral and other sea flora.

Most Cost-Effective Solution – Sure, you can salvage old boats and other “materials of opportunity,” but have you considered the logistics of moving them around for deployment? It can be a nightmare, costing you a fortune. Reef balls have the advantage of far easier transportability. So, although deployment is still labor intensive, it’s not as burdensome as trying to handle other reef restoration options.

Explore Reef Balls for Your Coastal Location

Reef Renovations also partners with local communities, builders, and private companies to deploy reef balls in several locations. This can be everywhere from underneath coastal bridges to far other out into the ocean, often with the help of local businesses. If you own or operate a coastal business, and have an interest in coral restoration, then we’d love to hear from you.

The team at Reef Renovations welcomes you to explore our full range of reef ball products. We possess a terrific variety of shapes and sizes, including several customizable enhancements. Call us anytime to learn more about reef balls at 941-330-0501.

Welcome to Reef Innovations, where we specialize in coral reef and sea life restoration with novel reef ball creations. Our mission is to make artificial underwater habitats and reinvigorate the sea life population. These safe underwater dwellings include our reef balls, reef layer cakes, reef cubes, and other constructions.

Today, we’d like to highlight the reef balls we make, available in various sizes and arrangements.

What are Reef Balls?

Reef balls are an artificial reef technology, designed to be sent into various parts of the ocean floor to establish new homes for fish, starfish, sea flora, and other organisms. It’s a proven remedy for areas that have sustained rapid reef erosion. Believe it or not, the earliest application of this concept goes back to 250 BC, when the ancient Carthaginians used stone reefs to block their adversaries from sea invasion.

Nowadays, reef balls come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from about 30 pounds and reaching upwards of several thousand pounds. Most of them have interconnecting holes to help facilitate sea life entry. While you can position reef balls almost anywhere in the ocean, they work especially well in areas around seawalls, underneath docks, or any place with extensive reef depletion.

If you explore some of the ones we make, you’ll find many options for diverse shapes, weights, and sizes. Here’s a quick sample of how that works.

• Oyster Balls (smaller, 9-inch reef balls)
• “Original” Reef Balls (three feet, five inches long)
• Goliath Balls (much more massive reef balls; almost five feet long)
• Goliath Balls w/Base (these are over six feet long)
• . . . plus several other versions.

How Do Reef Balls Restore Sea Life Habitats?

Some of the more extensive reef ball projects involve the deployment of thousands of reef balls to cover larger areas of the seafloor. You can use reef balls to accomplish objectives such as:

• Protection of sea turtles (who love these underwater dens as a sanctuary from predators)
• Take advantage of old sunken ships (like this sunken Civil War Era Tug) to attract sea life
• Enhancing fishery opportunities in certain locations (including popular shellfish delicacies, like oysters)
• . . . and many other purposes!

Contact Reef Innovations to Learn More

We also invite you to follow everything we’re doing to expand this and other projects all across the world. We’ve deployed reef balls in places as diverse as the Gulf Coast and Mid Atlantic to overseas locations in Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. If this excites you, then you can even hire us for consulting services, and launch your very own reef ball endeavors.

Reef Innovations would like to thank you for checking out our focus on reef ball designs and purposes. This is already making a difference, but we’d love to partner with you to accomplish more. Contact us anytime to learn more about this novel aquatic engineering method by calling 941-330-0501.