Aiptasia or some other thing?

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Hello guys,
this is my first time posting here. So today I noticed a small (roughly 3cm) aiptasia on my stylo frag plug, I pulled the plug out and snipped the stylo off the plug and decided to just glue it on the LR by itself. A few seconds later i noticed these small (1cm) things on my glass. i got the camera to focus. Any help would be appreciated as i just spent a lot of money on corals and dont want this thing to kill them haha. pics are below. Sorry I double posted.
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They don’t look like aptasia to me. Maybe hydroids or something? The aptasia I’ve seen on my glass in the past have had a definitive ‘stem’ or foot.
 
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They don’t look like aptasia to me. Maybe hydroids or something? The aptasia I’ve seen on my glass in the past have had a definitive ‘stem’ or foot.
huh okay, do you think it could be my pocillopora polyps?
 

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Doesnt seem to be pocillopora polyps, are you seeing whitish base? Since pocillopora are stony corals u should see that. From your pictures alone it looks like some sort of hair or turf algae.
 
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Doesnt seem to be pocillopora polyps, are you seeing whitish base? Since pocillopora are stony corals u should see that. From your pictures alone it looks like some sort of hair or turf algae.
its def algae. I just watched my turbo munch a bunch of them
 

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