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When you say they live on spongy looking pieces, not on rock, are you talking about leather coral? Do these spots move (nudibranchs) or do they look like egg sacs at all?
If you had said you have 'spongy white spots ON my live rock" I would say it was definitely a sponge, I have 5 or 6 of them. But that wasn't what you said .