Sand worm critter ID

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estanoche

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Hi Leslie!!

I'm hoping you can help me ID these critters I have that grow basically throughout my sandbed, but they love overhangs and whatnot. They are soooo small they are almost impossible for me to photograph. I'm sure they aren't harmful as I've had them in this tank for over a year, but they do keep multiplying! I started with a few in a small area of the tank, now they are everywhere!

They live in these hard tubes - which actually seem to hold my sandbed down a bit - and they are really hard to scrape off of clams, corals, etc once they encrust.

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The worms themselves look like very very thin white thread. They poke out of the sandbed and "flow with the wind"... like feeding sweeper tentacles on a LPS coral

Hopefully thats enough info, but if we need more I can see what I can do!! :dance: :dance:
 
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