Sea Fan inspiration and tips

[lion king]

That's quite the food mix. How do you handle nitrates/phosphate and nutrient export? ETA: nice NPS', by the way.

And honestly, I've found that the photosynthetic gorgonian I have (Pterogorgia anceps, a very shallow water species) is quite easy to keep. 200 PAR (can take much more), enough flow that it sways back and forth (though I wish I could have it more wave like, maybe 5s pulses), and occasional feeding and its fine. It's even good with algae because it can shed its skin, an adaptation to the micro-algae laden seagrass and macroalgae beds it supposedly frequently inhabits in the wild.

I have a pretty efficient refugium and a quick water change system and do about 3 water changes a week equally about 40% total, I use an oversized skimmer and wet skim with chemipure blue media. The tank is very low light so there is zero algae growth. Here's my build thread https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/lion-kings-nps-predators-reef.503294/

Here's some of my photosynthetic, they really take no special care at all.