ID Help!

Cleaning my tank this week I found this stuff on the back of some mushrooms. It's a bright orange mass that I thought at first was maybe sponge, but upon further inspection the substance is gooey to the touch.

Haven't seen this befor and want to know if anyone has encountered this. Would like to know if I need to remove it befor problems arise.

75 gallon tank w/ reefbreeders 16 photon lights (2) at 40%
ph 8.2
alk 178
nitrates 10
nitrites 0
phosphates .003
temp 79.3

Tanks has been up for 9 months

 

I see nothing more than sponges.

 

yes, it looks like sponge just a sponge of a different color

 

Yep thats a sponge. I would get rid of it. Sponges aren't always harmless. I once had a sponge smother a colony of green star polyps. They also bother zoas and probably mushrooms too.

Luckily, sponges are easy to get rid of. I would brush it off with a toothbrush or syphon it off. As a more permanent solution, you could point some more flow at the area. Sponges hate flow, they will blow right off.