Millipede like critter?

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Found this around/inside the mouth of a Scolymia. It's very tiny, any IDs? I think I saw some of them before inside LR, but never on a coral. So now i'm pretty curious to what it is and more importantly, what does it eat?

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It's very small (like half an inch), but do Dorvellidae worms have 5 tentacles? This one seems to have 5 and I thought that was typical for Eunice sp?
 

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It's very small (like half an inch), but do Dorvellidae worms have 5 tentacles? This one seems to have 5 and I thought that was typical for Eunice sp?
I'm counting 7 tentacles on this one - 3 orange and 4 white (the two white on each side are close together, so you have to look really close to see them); I'm not sure what kind of worm it would be based on that, but it likely is from the same taxonomic order (Eunicida) as both Dorvilleids and Eunicids.
 

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That thing is actually pretty cool looking. I'd isolate it and try to raise it up into a monster.
 

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