Noteworthy american coral on ebay

Seamazter · #1 01-22-2010, 05:55 PM

Its a 5 hour drive to montana from here, i spend more time then that on the deerfoot on icy days.(ok not that long im sure)
Even tho a bordergaurd would say something.
If i could drive there what would i need to get into canada? just pay taxes on it?

blueyota · #2 01-22-2010, 05:59 PM

I think you need a permit of some kind to bring any thing live back...

Mr.nintendo · #3 01-22-2010, 06:22 PM

Ya it's not an easy process, it would be taken away if you were caught with it and didn't have the proper paperwork

kien · #4 01-22-2010, 06:23 PM

and the item is in Vancouver Washington, so you'd have to have it shipped to someone's house in Montana? Then drive down and pick it up.. but before you do any of that I think you need a CITIES :-)

K.

howdy20012002 · #5 01-22-2010, 06:31 PM

officially you would need CITES for both pieces
not really worth the cost or risk IMO.
Neal

Seamazter · #6 01-22-2010, 06:53 PM

Would a cities be hard to get?? would one cities cover all the same type of coral? Like an acan cities i could bring back 10 aus. acans?

Ron99 · #7 01-22-2010, 07:19 PM

I don't think it's possible as an individual. You would also probably need copies of the original CITES documents when the coral was first imported into the US and I doubt the seller has any of that to provide.

Bloodasp · #8 01-22-2010, 09:53 PM

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/env...uarium-eng.htm

Nihoa · #9 01-23-2010, 05:20 PM

ron99 is right. its why we dont get any ora corals here. they cant get permits for their stuff to ship here as they are not the country or origin for the species. its a bit retarded cus you have great propagation vendors unable to sell their stuff and pressure remains on wild collection.

#10 01-22-2010, 07:23 PM

go on the goverment site and find out what you can bring back and what paper work would be needed I believe that importers get one CITIES for a shipment and they have to list all that is on that shipment. some supplyers will ship to Canada. Otherwise you would have no corals in your tanks..The proof is in the pudding as they say. IF they are frags and mounted on frag plugs I believe you maybe able to get it shipped to Canada. I have been doing some reeding on this most ebay item go way to high. I have a piece of hammer that is the same as the first item you showed, they are available you just have to find them..

Bill