Random question alert

[cocoa_pleco]

Hoping others from Canada can chime in. October im going to Florida for a week, just to do pretty much absolutely nothing. Florida is where alot of reputed live rock sellers sell good live rock for a few bucks a pound. Would I be able to get some across the Can./US border? i would wrap it in alot of wet newspaper, buy it on the last day, and re-cure it after. Im just not sure if taking live rock across the border counts as taking plants or live animals.

[1MileCrash]

i'm not 100% but i HIGHLY doubt that you would be able to cross the border with live rock without a sellers or venders license.

[Kuli_Loach]

i'm not 100% but i HIGHLY doubt that you would be able to cross the border with live rock without a sellers or venders license.

Ditto to that. Contact the border and ask.

[invadertoast]

Definately contact the border and ask them, I have reptiles and to take my ball python across requires a permit (personal pet) both ways, but my leopard geckos do not require anything and can be transported legally.

[Ryuu]

What they dont know wont kill them eh? hide it under the seats lol

[invadertoast]

What they dont know wont kill them eh? hide it under the seats lol

Lol! - I think he's flying (right?)

I'd still call and ask someone, it would stink to get a bunch of awesome stuff for a good price then have to give it up or get held up at the border for it. I've done my share of hiding stuff under the seats and have only been searched once out of the zillion times I've driven to Canada, but they have been cracking down more lately, more so going into the US than into Canada. I always feel nervous when crossing back into the US, even though I'm not doing anything illegal.

Last time I went up, the Canadian border was more concerned that I had two bottles of gin as "gifts" rather than knowing who I am. They made me go in the booth to pay duty on one of them (they said I could lie and say one was for my own personal consumption) and they never even looked at my ID... priorities, eh? lol

[Ryuu]

Lol thats funny, duh forgot about flying lol, hmm well theres always the secret bag you can drag on lol

[Ocellaris]

This made me think of something I always wondered. If I wanted to drive or flew to Canada, would I need a passport?

Same with Mexico. I never been out of the U.S. yet and was just curious.

[invadertoast]

I believe for Canada you need one for flying (not 100% sure if that's in effect yet,) but if you're travelling by car or ferry you don't need one, but you do need a photo I.D. and long-form birth certificate. I drive to Canada all the time (and sometimes take the intl. ferry) and they keep pushing the passport deadline back (I have mine anyway.) Half the time they don't even look at my ID (they always look when returning to the US though.) I'm not sure about Mexico.

[cocoa_pleco]

yeah, im flying. i would never drive that far. if i was driving i might sneak it but knowing me i would stutter and get a red face infront of the border patrol

[fins_n_fur]

Any chance that you know someone just over the border you could ship it to, then drive down on your return to pick it up? And go with a friend who wouldn't be as red-faced LOL? The timing would need to be just right probably. I remember getting a red-hot grilling at security for attempting to bring a small jar of beach sand back from Florida when I stilled lived in the US. And that was before today's painful security measures. I wound up binning it at security.

[cocoa_pleco]

When i went to California a few years ago i had a girlfriend (she came on to ME. lol), but i dont know her number anymore. Other than that i dont know anyone in the US

[Alfcea]

As a Mexican who has entered Canada from abroad several times, I can tell you that Canadian custom officers in general do not care much about these things. I have brought food items and, as long as they are well wrapped up, they don't seem to care much. I have never brought live animals or plants, though, and that may be different...

Have you contacted them yet?

[invadertoast]

There was this one time where my uncle had a cooler full of frozen rats in his truck and got searched (going into Canada.) I was in a different car with my snake (and proper permit, but they never asked.) The border guard looked right in the cooler and didn't say a word about it, they gave him a hard time about a used computer that he had though. I still don't know if they knew what the white things were in the cooler... must've thought it was chicken or something? I would have have been suspicious had I been the border guard... lol

[gm72]

I can just see the scene now.

Customs agent: Sir, your bag is extremely heavy, well over the limit.
Cocoa: Sorry about that, sir, I must have mis-weighed it.
Customs: It's wet, too.
Cocoa: Yeah, well, ummm...it was...raining. Yeah, raining in Florida when I left.
Customs: It's crawling with these little crab things.
Cocoa: Yeah, ummm...I forgot my medication for this trip.
Customs: Oh, wow man, ummm, sorry about your luck there. Hurry the hell up and get out of my station.
:hmm3grin2orange:

[Tigerbarb]

Pretty much all 'practical/proffessional' patrol thingers, animal cruelty organizations, or news reporters hardly even think about fish when doing their work, so I doubt they'd even know what live rock is.

I'd order Florida live rock online, if I lived in Canada.