I am not offended at all, and understand we are all busy. Thank you for the consideration though, I do appreciate it.
So I went and rechecked my substrate and I'm using Cypress, not Aspen... When I read the reply, I thought, hang on a second.... Didn't I choose Cypress for all those specified reasons?? Turns out I did! Thank you for the info.
Question then about QT... Is the main concern transmission of disease and parasites, or are there behavioural considerations too? Being new to this, I obviously thought wrong that separate enclosures and vet checked for mites was decent protocol, so again, thank you for pointing that out. I am however, curious as to whether having them side by side increases overall stress...
Heather