do corals need to be quarantined?

[everl0ng]

i am in my 3rd month now and i am looking at getting some mushrooms for my tank, and i was just curious as to whether they need to or would benefit from being in a QT for a short time, or if that would be bad? i have an extra 2 1/2 gallon tank that i was using as a qt. should i turn it into a refugium or keep it just incase i need to qt? thank you very much in advance!!

[fsn77]

While I don't quarantine corals, I do give them a dip before putting them in our tank. I give soft corals fw dips and the lps corals lugol's solution dips to help get rid of hitchhikers. While it gets rid of the good guys as much as the bad, I usually try to save the good guys by tossing them into our refugium as soon as I notice them falling out / off (usually small brittle stars). I don't know if my effort to save them is in vain (refugium is pretty full of macro), but I hope that a few of them have survived. I do know that dipping has saved my tank from being infested with red flatworms (bought a small mushroom rock once that was covered in them, the lighting in the lfs was so poor they weren't noticable) and kept a large nudibranch from feasting further on a frogspawn (it was a very nice looking nudibranch though).