Awesome free swimming worms/shrimps?

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So for the past year, every other week at night I see these crazy little worms or shrimps swimming around... they LOVE the flashlight. Any ideas?

You can see them wedge between the glass and magnetic frag rack since I shone the light there for a bit. They can squish themselves down to fit it very thin spaces, but are tubular when swimming - lots of little hairs on their sides propel them around very quick.

Just curious as to what they are - they haven't cause any issues that I'm aware of, and I can easily feed my mussa's by shining a light on them at night and they zap a few. Lol

They swim all over the place toward the light. Takes them 4 or 5 seconds to get from one side of the 6ft tank to the other. Micheal Phelps worms?

Wish I could post a video...

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Did some more research and I'm guessing they are epitokes. Very cool and fun little guys - only out around 1 random night a week.
 

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