Baussie, I am *totally* in favor of online over the LFS but in the case of scooters and dragonets generally, I'm less convinced... simply because at the LFS you have the chance to have the vendor feed frozen food and see whether they're eating.
I did that for mine, got a female that was eating, and like six months later got a male that was eating, now thay're two peas in a pod. I doubt I could have done that with an online retailers...