Kabong nailed in.... know exactly what you are looking at, research it, research it some more and make sure it of they will play nice with each other. I saw my marron clown was feeling a little frisky... I thought hmm buy him a buddy and see if we cant make the lil guy happy.. he beat the crap out another maroon in about 5 minutes... stressed it out so bad it ended up dead a few days later. $25 down the drain and more than that, I felt like crap for putting a creature thru some thing like that. buy a few good books first of all and learn as much as you can.. you will save so much in the end. as for the stores.... find out who to talk to in each store and then go forth... you may have just spoken to the wrong person in Safari .. the gerbal expert perhaps.. and despite what they may tell you.. they dont do real well in marine aquariums
Hillside .. Cora
Creatures ... Allan
Safari ... Ted / Gapardo (sp?)
IPZ (Duncan) .. Scott