KMG, Hammertime,
You are both correct in my world. An inexperienced keeper's best and safest path to success is to duplicate what others have done and take their advice. Once you have an advanced understanding of your animals and the things that can go wrong by all means experiment. At this stage you will know when your experiment is going wrong. If no one is experimenting we will never find out new things. I do not go by the book on everything I do. Sometimes things work, sometimes they don't but I have enough experience to know when I would be putting my animals in danger.
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