[Delphinus]

Personally, my feeling is that if someone is interested in these animals, then we owe it to them to provide the details of how to provide an aquarium that will allow them to succeed [...]

I couldn't have said it better myself. That's exactly how I feel. Sorry -- I realize you were responding to the original question, I was just elaborating on why I wasn't impressed. All I ever said in reply was that I had seen the shipment myself and was unimpressed -- I thought perhaps an elaboration was in order. Personally I see a lot of animals brought in by LFS that realistically have no business bringing these animals in. You bring up an excellent example with the hosting anemones -- I see these guys constantly brought in only to suffer huge casualties. But I would never suggest an import ban on them, what I would prefer to see is that when a person feels that they are ready to accomodate such species that they approach their supplier and ask for a special order type item. I see no reason why such an approach couldn't be more readily adopted today than it currently is -- currently I've found when I was looking for particular species that I was told by suppliers to "just keep checking back with them, eventually they would bring one or two of those in." Of course what would happen is that when the animal did by chance become available, it was snatched up as impulse purchases by others before I myself was able to take a look at them. I don't know if this is a good example that illustrates my point and I don't know if my idea is really an improvement over the system currently in place but it seems to me that it could be. Of course, it means less $$$ to the retailers so realistically the idea will never fly.