Just want to say one more thing...
If your methods are working for you....then fine! I have no problem with folks doing their own thing, so long as their animals remain healthy and content to the best of our abilities. BUT...if you advocate YOUR methods that are so far out of the box, especially when talking to beginning keepers, you WILL get push back, for all the reasons I stated above...and those reasons have nothing to do with some mindless, dogmatic adherence to any specific care sheet, even the one I wrote for this site.