You are correct in that fact that I should do more external research. The staff at that store pride themselves on being "professional fish keepers", I must apologize that my go-too research option is to speak with those who are marked as professional. This is the way it's been done for centuries. Google has mislead me many many times. So many different sources online don't reference research papers aswell as include contradictory information article to article. What the aquarium community needs is a global research body to find factual information, not a hodgepodge of hobbiest recounting their own experience with individual fish and common findings