Is this aptasia?

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Hey so I have a couple yellow finger Sea fans and I just started noticing these little aptasia looking critters, I and having trouble because they look like the polyps of the Sea fans, I’ll attach a few photos but it’s extremely difficult to actually see what I’m talking about, it looks like the flowers but I’m assuming it’s aptasia, if it is how do I get rid of that without bombing my reef?

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Blurry pictures but it looks like each 'tentacle' has small branches coming off the side-if so, not aiptasia.
 

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Hey so I have a couple yellow finger Sea fans and I just started noticing these little aptasia looking critters, I and having trouble because they look like the polyps of the Sea fans, I’ll attach a few photos but it’s extremely difficult to actually see what I’m talking about, it looks like the flowers but I’m assuming it’s aptasia, if it is how do I get rid of that without bombing my reef?

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not aptasia but as mentioned- pics blurry. Can be sea cucumber (see below) or clove polys

Cucumber:

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Cloves:
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