Little strands sticking up out of sand bed?

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I siphoned out a thin top layer of my sand to remove a couple small patches of dinos (whole other story) and saw these. Looks almost like grass growing out of the sand. Sorry for blurry pic quality. Anyone know what this is?
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Do they retract when touched? Do they catch food particles? Looks like some sort of algae but need clearer pics and a better description to really identify.
they don’t really seem to retract, not sure if they’re catching particles, they sway a little in the current (not firm/hard like vermatid snails or tube worms), and they seem to have a slight green tint up close
 

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Hard to tell. Can you get a closeup of one?
It looks like how my calceours algae spreads. Starts off small and pops up somewhere else and grows to this.
May not be though.
Bottom left.
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Hard to tell. Can you get a closeup of one?
It looks like how my calceours algae spreads. Starts off small and pops up somewhere else and grows to this.
May not be though.
Bottom left.
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i do have some small halmedia strands on my rocks, that would be cool if it started spreading that much like that lol
 

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