anyone have a fish shipped from the US? what paperwork is needed?

there are no fish available in the USA that your local store in Canada could not order in for you...

[mark]

another thread about importing with a few links

[corpusse]

Originally Posted by UnderWorldAquatics

there are no fish available in the USA that your local store in Canada could not order in for you...

They can order it all they want, but is it going to come in?

also what happens when its a plain male / female and they want their $$$

If I wait a couple years I'm sure I could get another but I don't want to wait years. Months maybe but I'd rather just do the work myself if they can't come through.

No offense to the shops I shop at not they are on here. I love them, I'm there all the time ect but they can't do everything.

[Delphinus]

The economy of scale is starting to show its effects too. I've been after some things for years and they're constantly available in the U.S., and never available here. I have standing requests for many things that shouldn't be a problem to get and yet .. years on there's still nothing. Yet I see the same things available at U.S. vendors every week, week after week, and at really low prices too. It's frustrating and I've come close to considering importing fish now myself too. I'd MUCH prefer to support my local shops though.. so for now .. I wait ... and wait .... and wait ... grow a little older ... and wait some more. This is sort of a ridiculous hobby sometimes.

[wickedfrags]

Exactly. All stores recieve fish lists with great, unusual and expensive fish some hobbiests wait years to buy.......but only a small handful of stores ever receive one or two specimens in Canada, and rarely. Just because a fish is on a list does not mean a store will receive one just becuase they order (I know this first hand myself now...).

I have ordered fish from a LFS and waited more than 9 months and it never showed up...in fact they have still not received one 3 years later. That being said, I always try to get it at my LFS as well.

Andrew - in your opinion, what makes the "supermale" a supermale in your opinion? Can a regular male not become a supermale in the presence of females of the same species?

Originally Posted by Delphinus

The economy of scale is starting to show its effects too. I've been after some things for years and they're constantly available in the U.S., and never available here. I have standing requests for many things that shouldn't be a problem to get and yet .. years on there's still nothing. Yet I see the same things available at U.S. vendors every week, week after week, and at really low prices too. It's frustrating and I've come close to considering importing fish now myself too. I'd MUCH prefer to support my local shops though.. so for now .. I wait ... and wait .... and wait ... grow a little older ... and wait some more. This is sort of a ridiculous hobby sometimes.

[corpusse]

imo they do not need the female to achieve supermale colours. The blue being the trait of the supermale.

See




in real life the blue is even more prominent however to the untrained eye this is not a big trait of the flame males.

If you recall mine came in singly and went more then a year without seeing a female. In this time the blue only intensified.

I've only seen 3-4 of these guys in person and the other time I saw them with females they did not look as colourful. This could be due to the fact they were smaller.

I can't say for certain all males become supermales otherwise what's the point of calling them supermales? Adult would be a better term. As far as I can tell from searching on RC not all males have the blue. If I had more room / setups I'd be willing to try a plain male too, however since I'm only running one tank that is an idea environment for these guys I want one that is showing at least some blue that can be brought out like my old guy. I know this may sound extremely anal, but I had the fish which imo was the perfect fish and better then anything else I've seen in the 1000s of marine fish we see come in every few weeks here. He shouldn't have died and now I'm doing my best to replace him before Hawaii restricts fish collection.