Reef Nation

Reefnation was founded in 2010 by Justin Hester. Justin grew up near the ocean on Long Island in New York. From a young age, his parents took him and his friends to the beach where they would catch small marine organisms and attempt to keep them at home in buckets and later in small fish tanks. Taking things to the next level, in high school he was fortunate to have an amazing teacher, mentor, and fellow marine biology fanatic in Mrs. Donna Edgar. In between her time teaching at the college level, diving, and teaching our marine biology classes, she was instrumental in teaching Justin how to keep marine life in captivity through the tanks in her classroom. Back in 1991, keeping corals and even marine fish for long periods of time in captivity was something only experts and public aquariums did successfully.