Worm-like creature ID help

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I noticed a worm-like creature on one of my live rocks. It can stretch and it has a white body with black bands on it. Its ripping off detritus or algae off the live rock, it looks like it doesn't move around but rather hiding in a crevice and stretching out. Sorry that the video is blurry and dark, I recorded it at night and my phone camera is bad. Can anyone ID it? It's very small like less than 1mm thick, but quite long.



 
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The video is too dark and noisy to see it properly, but you can compare it to this specimen here: https://melevsreef.com/blogs/peanut-worm-pictures

Peanut worms are harmless so in that case you should be fine 😊
Sorry, about the audio, i forgot to turn it off, but yea the camera quality is bad. It does resemble the peanut worm a lot. Thank you!
Well the audio didn't bother me I had it turned off, but I meant a grainy image due to the camera pushing up the sensor sensitivity to not only show a black screen.

Don't worry about the audio 😅

In general: If it's small and seems to be gathering detritus and still stays hidden at night, it should be fine. If you see something actively scavenging/hunting it gets dangerous, especially when it's growing large.
 

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