Bringing Fish Over the Border FROM the US

[dsaundry]

I just checked on Ebay and "reefcomplete" has raised their price on shipping. Still a deecent deal.

[WuHT]

Originally Posted by Canadian

What stores are you guys going to on the other side of the border? And do they tend to have stock that we don't have here?

this is a good question. A few of the fish stores in greater vancouver said they will order in "special fish" for a customer. Though i haven't tried this myself, the thought of this would eliminate any need to drive south (unless u actually live closer to the pick-up zone).

I figure big department store types like Big Als might not be able to pull it off, but some of the smaller fish stores said they could do it (as well as j/l's)

Especially with the US/CA conversion rate i was tempted to get something in the states but i thought it was too bothersome. Livestock wise, pretty much most aquarium fish are not covered in CITES (or at least online )..unless you happen to want to keep the humphead wrasse.

[Shipwreck]

Live rock is a cities listed item as well as many corals. And then any coral that is mounted to rock is again protected as part of the live rock. I know many people have tried this but with the fines so high I wouldn't bother.

The other problem with buying from somewhere furhter away is your LFS will suffer and when you go to buy those staple items they are no longer around. We used to have several good fish stores locally but because everyone drove to Toronto to buy their fish & coral, the local stores closed and now everyone has to drive a greater distance even for basic items. Now the lower prices are offset by the fact it takes me most of a day to get there, a tank of gas, meals/food, so the $20 savings I would have gotten was replaced by $150 of extra costs.