Noteworthy american coral on ebay

kien · #1 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 · #2 01-22-2010, 06:31 PM

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

Seamazter · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 01-22-2010, 09:53 PM

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

Purple · #6 01-23-2010, 01:44 AM

If I remember correctly, when Starry was researching bringing things over the border, if you are caught trying to bring some corals across the border they will even seize your vehicle!

Leah · #7 01-23-2010, 01:48 AM

[QUOTE=Purple;If I remember correctly, when Starry was researching bringing things over the border, if you are caught trying to bring some corals across the border they will even seize your vehicle!

Hi Purple,

Yeah, I was told the same by a friend that works at the border!

Leah

Nihoa · #8 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.

Seamazter · #9 01-24-2010, 02:01 AM

I am all for propigated corals, and admin ORA has great fish.
But im at a lose for the enginered corals, im sure they look amazing and would love to have one in my tank, but at the cost of all the corals that died before they got thier good strain, it might be too risky.
I like canadas stance on genitic engineering laws, its something the usa should start too.

#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