What is this green thing looks like a flower but might have a foot?

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Hey All!
I have a 2 of these green daisy looking things that came in on my live rock. They’ve doubled in size over the past few months but certainly not growing at a rapid pace. They have moved to different spots on the rock based on lighting or flow changes but not more than a few inches. Due to the movement I’m thinking it has a foot of some kind. Can anyone help to identify?

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Bad Hitchhiker. This is another pest anemone that multiplies quickly and stings anything near it. Best removed by manual scraping off and super glue/epoxy/kalk past over its spot. Peppermint shrimp will reportedly consume them as well.
 
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Thank you so much! I’ll pull them off this evening after the BTA and leather retract for the night. Can you help identify one more pest? These little neon green flowers are everywhere. They retract when touched just like aiptasia. Are they harmful as well?
 

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Hard to tell from the pic.
 

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Hard to tell from the pic.

I have never seen aiptasia that fluoresce. I have always seen dirty brown ones or clear ones if they are in the dark.
 
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Used aiptasia x on the Majanos this evening. There were 3 in total (one nickel, one dime, and one pea sized). I was able to get a shot at each right in the center mouth so hoping it’s a one and done situation.
 

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