IT HAS A MOUTH?! Tubelike soft coral?

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So I have been adding corals to my soft-coral aquarium lately, and I came across this interesting coral that stood out in the store where they had no other soft corals, nobody there knew what it was, it was only $9, I had to have it. Under blues it glows green and purple, tonight it showed its "true colors" and opened the hole at the top into this giant mouth! Its about 2" tall from the rock to the top of the mouth, when the mouth is closed it looks like a little elephant trunk. Kinda sweet if you ask me. But I'm a nerd for soft corals and would love to identify it. Any ideas?

Also any ideas on the cyano? Hasnt bothered anybody yet, but its kinda ugly, tried upping the flow today, high flow areas currently dont have any cyano. Thanks!
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Might be an Acrozoanthus, but it's hard to tell without seeing it full opened
Excellent suggestion, it does look alot like other types of those. I HOPE it is that. So would the acrozoanthus have these little side bumps? Maybe new polyps along the "stem"?
 
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I been staring at your pictures and then I thought…these might be snake polyp coral! I’ve never seen in person but have seen online before

Is this it? There’s a few variations
THATS IT!! THANK YOU! This was driving me nuts. These are so cool. It is exactly a snake polyp coral.
 

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THATS IT!! THANK YOU! This was driving me nuts. These are so cool. It is exactly a snake polyp coral.
They are one of those unique corals you don’t really hear about because they aren’t commonly sold. Great find! I would have bought them also, especially for 9$ what a bargain

With a mouth like that you should see if they feed on mysis, if not maybe something smaller like benereef
 
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They are one of those unique corals you don’t really hear about because they aren’t commonly sold. Great find! I would have bought them also, especially for 9$ what a bargain
This made my day. Ive been digging around for cool softies and this was one of those little impulse buys that ended up paying off. It was shrivled up and covered in aptasia. Got it all cleaned up and dropped it in today. Glad to see its open.
 

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Great find the weird and wonderful are more interesting than the normal stuff great find
 

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Yep, Snake polyps, easy care , night time filter feeder, hearty coral , nice find... ;)
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