Should I be worried? SPS bite marks on edges?

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The last two days after the lights have came on in my tank i have noticed a white slime around the edges of two corals. They are separated by about two feet. One is an efflo and the other is a stag. It appears that the coral has been ate at the encrusting edge and the coral is giving off this slime. Is that what this appears like to you and what could be causing this? All other SPS are looking great and do not seem to be affected. There are no new additions as well.

Tank Stock:
Blue tang
One Spot Foxface
Longhorn Cowfish
Purple tang
Yellow tang
sailfin tang
turbo snails
hermits
clownfish
 
That is a pretty large bite. How big is your Blue Tang and the Fox Face?
 
I had a yellow tang develop a taste for SPS.
 
I thought cow fish ate corals.
 
Cowfish and foxface are with caution. The thing is it only has happened at night. My fish do not move at night. Came out many times and they are hunkered down.
 
With the size of the bite and the Fox face being with caution id say its him. How often do you feed?
 
Every other day. Why would it only be the base of the corals though and not the tips? That is what has me stumped.
 
So this morning I turned the lights on and saw if I noticed anything around the area of the last bite. I found a white worm hanging off the rock that almost looks like a bristle worm and then the second video i noticed a clear looking worm with black bands by its head that inched around but moved very fast at times. By the efflo bite it almost looks like something burrowed a circular hole into the super glue. I noticed a few other spots that this may have happened as well. Any worms that like to tunnel in super glue at the encrusting line of SPS?

 
I fear that this may possibly be a Eunicid worm.
 
I dip every coral that comes into my tank in bayer, coralrx and flatworm exit. I do not know how this would have made it into my tank.
 

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