Aiptasia or Feather Duster?

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I don’t have a picture at the moment, however my question is whether aiptasia can ever emanate from a white tube structure similar in every way to a vermitid tube, but white.

I recently put a new coral in QT and I identified 2 aiptasia’s, however, there was another similar thing emanating from a white tube. Subsequently I noticed a similar thing on an old coral (too soon to have spread). Otherwise my QT has been aiptasia free.
 
I uploaded this pic in my own threat to find out what these were, and I was told they are feather dusters.

if yours look similar, they’re feather dusters

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Ok this is the remaining thing on the new coral; I can’t say for sure it’s coming out of a tube even though it looks like it in the picture:
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This is a terrible picture because it’s at the back of the tank but it’s the best I can do. You can at least see the tube:
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This one appears to have two fronds as where the one in the first picture is circular.
 
I take that back; the one in the second picture looks more circular to me now as well.
 

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