Id - Pink tube thing?

texasex

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I have had this duster cluster for about 3 months now, and yesterday I noticed this little pink tube thing hiding amongst them. Anyone have any idea what it could be, and if there is anything I need to do for it, or to it if it is bad?! :notsure:
Sorry the picture is kinda fuzzy. It is only about 1/4 in. tall.
 
texasex

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I know its a pretty bad picture, but nobody knows what it could possibly be? I'll even take what species it could be. :confused: Is it a wierd kinda coral or something? I am still new to many kinds of corals. It doesn't get a lot of light, and it will open up and close when something gets close by.
 
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Thanks for the imput, but unless I am way off base, I don't think that is what it is. I looked up pictures of the vermitid snail, and my fella doesn't have any antennae or a shell. I tried to take a better close up picture of it. It's almost pear shapes at the bottom, from what I can see.
 
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Here's another one, sorry, I guess they aren't much better than the first ones, but my camera has a hard time focusing on something that small.
 
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Okay, forgot to ask, does anyone else have an opinion as to what it might be? I am stumped. And if you all think that it is a tunicate, is there anything special that I should do for it? They are a good thing to have, right? :notsure:
 
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I have had one of these in my tank, and it stretchs out and eats live rock. I let it go thinking it would not harm anything. well about 3 weeks ago I moved my tank and I found the little worm and it had ate the insides of a piece of live rock up and left a fine sand in its place. I never found out what it was but it ate alot of live rock.
 
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This one isn't attached to any of my live rock. It's just sorta floating with the duster cluster. It doesn't seem to eat anything. A filter feeder maybe? Unless it is eating the only section of crushed coral that I have in my tank?!
 
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I would watch it, seriously because I had one that looked just like it. It would stretch out like a rubber band and then take 50-60 bites and spit it out.
 
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Maybe mine is lethargic. I have never seen it do anything but close up it's opening when a fish swims too close, like a feather duster. It stays in that same bent shape and just sits there. I will keep an eye on it though.
 
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