What is growing on my Stylophora

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Anyone knows what those spikes are on my Stylophora ? I had a tank crash about 2 months ago so some of my stylophora died. When it started growing back I noticed these spikes amoung the polyps, any ideas ?

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Can you get a closer pic? They look like vermetid snails to me (or a similar tube creature). Those look like feeders coming out of the tubes.
 
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They look like vermetids to me as well, my guess is they started encrusting on the underside where it took more time to grow back. I don't know if they can outcompete it or live in/overtop of live coral tissue, but the pairs of feeding hairs at the end of the tube definitely suggest vermetid to me.
 
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