sweet plant growing in my tank

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I was wondering if any one can give me an id. It is approx 1cm long, the trunk part, and it about 2 mm thick. from teh center of this comes a single string of white, about maybe a 1/4 of a mm thick, and it is about 3 cm long. this string is animated and constantly flowing in different directions, at first I thought it was just a normal plant, but I was watching it for a while, and the string will move against the current and flow lke its searching for something. Next thinog I know it picked up a very small peice of food, and it traveled up the string to teh mouth of the larger tube, (the string contracted inside the tube, not not all teh way), anyways, I thought I was seeing things, until it dropped the hunk of food, and then did it again!!! CRAZY! maybe im overreacting, but thi is the coolest thing Ive found in my tank yet.

Ill have pictures in a bit
 
ok, finally got a couple good pics, my camera SUCKS dfor taking pictures through teh glass into teh aquarium... Someone should make a camera for taking pictures of aquariums... but anyways. From taking the rock out of my tank for a picture I noticed a few things, first off there are a couple more, dead ones of these, which I thought were strings of poop with bits of aragonite on them, but they were dead things of these I think. second, I think the white pebbles you can see pretty clearly are little bits of aragonite, because therees the odd black one, which is what my sand it, black and white. (I think since it was low in my tank the tentacles attached to the bits of aragonite and picted them up to "protect" itself or whatever). update from last time, one of the tubes has a second tentacle in the same tube(what I call it anyways). Oh, BTW, the tentacles are retracted in teh pictures, theres not showing, only the base. I figure its probably a common thing, but i dont know, so hopefully someone can identify for me. Thanks. BTW, Ill try and get some pictures of the tentacles out, its pretty cool, they were wrapping arround branches of stuff growing a couple centimeters away, and pulling it toward them as far as they could.

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