Identify this sponge substance?

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Can anyone identify this?

I think this is what is causing an issue with some of my corals, specifically the softies.

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I wouldn’t remove it unless it was bothering the coral. I like sponges.
 

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Can anyone identify this?

I think this is what is causing an issue with some of my corals, specifically the softies.

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There is a sponge that smothers coral, is this growing over live skeleton or just the dead rocks?
 
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From my inexperienced eye, the sponge now covers "land" that once housed corals.

I can clearly see a branch of rock that once had mushrooms now have this white substance. The same can be said on my zoa garden.

I now noticed it on base rock of my goniastria. It does not seem to have overtaken this coral.
 

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