Little black worms

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Went to go feed my yellow tang and goby in my quarantine tank and I noticed these little black worms all over the PVC pipe and on the rocks does anybody know what these are? It's kind of hard to get a picture of them because they're so small but I attached some

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I hope this is better? They're so small I can't get the camera to focus that close to them. They almost look like if you shaved your beard and your hair fell in the tank. PXL_20200928_173346521.MP.jpg
 

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Looks like detritus worms.
Do they look like this? :

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Or this?


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friendly little oligochaete worms, they are good and kinda related to terrestrial earthworms
 
I hope this is better? They're so small I can't get the camera to focus that close to them. They almost look like if you shaved your beard and your hair fell in the tank. PXL_20200928_173346521.MP.jpg
This is exactly like what mine look like. It doesn't appear that they are moving my tank. However, I see a lot of them in my sump inside my skimmer.
 
I don't think that is what I have.
A little background. This is a 2 month old tank. Cycled with Dry sand and Rock/ammonia....fishless cycle. There are fish, hermits, snails in the tank currently. I just added tester corals. All fish and coral are doing well and look great.
 

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I don't think that is what I have.
A little background. This is a 2 month old tank. Cycled with Dry sand and Rock/ammonia....fishless cycle. There are fish, hermits, snails in the tank currently. I just added tester corals. All fish and coral are doing well and look great.
I thought I added another part. Try nemertean (ribbon worm)
 
Heres what my beard trimming worms look like under the scope (sorry for quality, holding my phone to the eyepiece isnt the easiest)
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Def looks earthworm related to me. But im no Dr.
 

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