What is this?

[grrrrhh]

I bought this from seeing it on pictures only. It was delivered to me today. It was advertised as a monti cap. This was going to be my first sps and I'm in doubt this is a monti cap.

From what I know, monti caps are suppose to be brittle while this one is pretty bendable plus I don't see any polyps. Through some research it looks closest to a leafy hedgehog coral and I can't quite find informations about them. Anybody know what this is?

 

[fishski13]

almost looks like a scroll coral

 

[Fish Styx]

Looks like a grumpy cup coral to me.

 

[encrustingacro]

Phyllospongia; type of sponge, not a coral

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Phyllospongia; type of sponge, not a coral

I'm inclined to agree with this - possibly Phyllospongia foliascens (also known as Cateriospongia foliascens or Phyllospongia lamellosa - if you google pics of P. lamellosa, you'll see photos of specimens that more closely resemble this one).

 

[grrrrhh]

I'm inclined to agree with this - possibly Phyllospongia foliascens (also known as Cateriospongia foliascens or Phyllospongia lamellosa - if you google pics of P. lamellosa, you'll see photos of specimens that more closely resemble this one).

Phyllospongia; type of sponge, not a coral

thank you so much! 100% it's a sponge after googling the pics. i'm not really familiar with sponges but this one seemed to have coated itself with some sort of slime and removed 100% of algaes and dirt around em.