Can someone identify this for me

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Can someone help identify this for me please, randomly showed up in my tank

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Kind of a bad pic but it looks like a baby Yellow Sea slug but I never bought one, also kind of want to remove it from hearing how toxic than can be when harmed or die
 
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Looks like an alien lol
 

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It came off the rock work but I saw another one under a zoa frag, there’s like 3 of them havnt seen them before today, bought a cleaner shrimp and dwarf angel a week ago, but havnt seen them before i added them to the tank
 
Definitely a sea cucumber.

You can see its tube feet so it’s an echinoderm

Any idea how they would get in my tank there’s like 4 of them also will a wrasse eat those
 
Did you buy live rock or any coral recently?
 
Did you buy live rock or any coral recently?
Nope haha that’s why I’m confused only thing I can think of is when I fed live brine shrimp I may have caught an egg in the net maybe??
 
Any idea how they would get in my tank there’s like 4 of them also will a wrasse eat those
I'm late, but definitely a sea cucumber; I would not expect any fish typically kept in our tanks to bother these at all, as sea cucumbers release an ichthyotoxin (fish-killing poison) called holothurin when stressed (and it's in their body parts). So, fish tend to avoid them.

As long as they don't get harassed or chopped by a powerhead or something, they should generally be safe. I have a bunch of posts on feeding them if you want to keep them; if you don't want them, I would see if you can give them to a local hobbyist, fish store, etc.
 
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