Boring Spionid Worms on LPS - help!

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Last few days my acan has been retracted and irritated, upon closer inspection I see these little boring filter feeders sticking out between polyps. Each tube has 2 small tentacles poking out of it.

From my research I'm thinking they're spionid worms, although most other boring spionid seem to target SPS from What I've seen.

Does anybody have any advice for getting rid of these? Superglue would be very difficult to do without damaging the coral tissue, and it's likely they'll just retract back into the coral skeleton then bore a new exit hole elsewhere.
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Inject the holes with some H2O2 in a syrenge with a fine guage needle? However, they''ve likely been there a long time and since the Acans apparently haven;t reacted like this before personally I's suspect some other cause.
 
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