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I don't know if you found what you were looking for, but your description matched something I was looking for (little hairs sticking out of live rock) and I think I found mine. They're mini brittle stars. I thought they looked like brittle star appendages but I never saw the whole thing so figured it was something else. You said you didn't find what you were looking for on the sites Kurt mentioned, but perhaps you missed this: Xtalreef
Read the mini brittle stars ID. If not, good luck!