Aptasia? Feather duster? Hitchhiker ID pls

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Noticed this very tiny hitchhiker. Based on the appearance of the base I don’t think it’s aiptasia but not sure. Looks kinda like a feather duster

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I’d have to look it up, but most sponges are completely harmless (there are a few invasive or harmful ones, but they’re relatively rare).
Well wonder if it’s a tunicate or that, would be kinda cool if it was a sponge. Thanks!
 
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the video did load and it was some kind of copepod or amipod (sorry, i have no idea how to spell that lol)
 
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Well, the pic looks like two things, one, (this could be wrong) it kinda looks like a vermitid snail, i have something in this tank that looks exactly like you creature in question, two it could be a pineapple sponge. do you mind going in your tank and touching the creature? that will tell me what it is. note that i have both pineapple sponges and vermitid snails in my tank.
 
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