I know newbies have a lot to contribute, but they must understand, reading a caresheet and typing here or on other forums is not a replacement for experience. So to give advice to other newbies is odd. You know, I read it yesterday and teach today.



That is academic. The problem is, keeping animals is not ACADEMIC. Its applied. The real knowledge is gained from recieving results. And that means over and over.



The reason is, its not a simple, this or that. There are many causes and many cures for any single problem.



I think a great discussion would be able the difference between conversation, talking about ones personal experience and giving advice.



Its so very common here, just WATCH and observe and see, that beginers ask questions for a day or two, then are answering them the next day or two. ThAT IS confusing academic information with applied information. With animals, in order to know what will work or what is right, you must apply what your read or were told, and gauge the results, from the animals. Over and over. Then if successful, it becomes information that can be taught to others(in academic form) They too have to apply it in order for it to be meaningful.



In this case, academic means in theory, or aside from. If you look it up, academics is information or knowledge that is not actually applied to the subject, As in school. There you learn material to be applied later to a area of work or a field of study that will sooner or later be used in real life.

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