Tampa Bay Saltwater

[chris c]

thanks guys i think i will pass on the rock and just order from a lfs. the last thing i want is to be stuck at the boarder with 2 grand in rock and sand.

thanks chris

PS his rock and sand do look really good wish he could ship to us!!

[fkshiu]

Strictly speaking, TBS LR shouldn't be covered by CITES since it's aquacultured by placing plain dead rock into the the TBS guy's "backyard" which happens to be the Atlantic.

But this and the orchid story goes to show that it's a crapshoot at the border. It's often up to the person you pull up to and how he/she interprets what you declare to him/her - take it from somebody who spent much of his post-secondary years slogging at YVR

Oh, and they wouldn't have arrested untamed. The worse they would do is hold the rock and give him a seizure receip.

[corpusse]

Originally Posted by fkshiu

Strictly speaking, TBS LR shouldn't be covered by CITES since it's aquacultured by placing plain dead rock into the the TBS guy's "backyard" which happens to be the Atlantic.

But this and the orchid story goes to show that it's a crapshoot at the border. It's often up to the person you pull up to and how he/she interprets what you declare to him/her - take it from somebody who spent much of his post-secondary years slogging at YVR

Oh, and they wouldn't have arrested untamed. The worse they would do is hold the rock and give him a seizure receip.

Dead live rock and aquacultured hard corals (dead or alive) are covered under CITES, as is stuff like coral jewelery...

[spreerider]

i think it depens on who you get at the border, sometimes they just let it go but sometimes they are cites crazy and wont let anything through,
I swear they pick days to look for certain things, like monday is cites day and tuesday is cocaine day, wed is look for something else etc.