Jelly?, Octopus?, Other?? Please ID

wetjet43

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I though this was hair algae at first, but when it grabbed a speck of shrimp meat, I knew something was up. It's too small to really see without the 150mm macro lens, but here is what I could get. You can see the speck of shrimp meat that it latched onto.

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Can you take a picture without the shrimp meat. It's hard to tell. I would suspect a worm of some sort though.
 
The tentacles are all separate, and they join inside of a tiny hole in the live rock. If it's a worm, there are several of them. When I place a piece of food by one of the tentacles, all of the tentacles seem to know it's there.
 
Animal mother: spaghetti worm are a different family. This is a cirratulid aka hair worm (see Mike's post above).
 
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