Clear sponge on liverock?

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Hey all, I just finished feeding my tank and saw this growth on my liverock. I’m newer to the reefing hobby tanks been up for close to 5 months now, I’m going through a moderate cyano outbreak too but I’m on the back end of it now. I have a couple pineapple sponges growing in the tank too and this looks nothing like them, can anyone help me with what it is?

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Can you circle the areas you’re talking about or re-post with white lighting? It is hard to see from your photo.

In general, sponge growth is is pretty harmless and I have plenty of random areas in my tanks where white and clear sponges are growing. It becomes an issue if it’s physically smothering a coral but this isn’t too common and is solved with physical removal which generally isn’t too difficult. Sponge dies fast in air.
 
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