Freaked out- Please assist

[cjd]

Brave soul to grab something and touch it without knowing what it was , could have bored a hole in you and laid eggs . o_O

 

[dbl]

...could have bored a hole in you and laid eggs . o_O

In the infamous words of Dr. Sheldon Cooper..."Was that Sarcasm?"

 

[cjd]

maybe , half a cup!!!

 

[Salty1962]

Bingo. It's a hair/spaghetti worm.

+1, I have hundreds of them. My sand bed looks like red spider webs a night. Good CSC.

 

[4FordFamily]

Looks like a little shrimp in the last photo but clearly it isn't! I'm not an expert at all, lionfish is the resident expert!