Are micro-chipped/certified Asian arowanas OK in the US?

[Dragonfish89]

Some one gona get arrested lolz

 

[Oddball]

Those pics are pretty well cropped. One wouldn't suspect they were cutting out someone else's watermark, ...would they?

 

[convict360]

not to derail, but I didn't realise it was illegal across the pond for you guys...arowana's aren't my thing, hence severe lack on knowledge about them and the related topics, i'd assumed a lot of arowana's i seen on here were in the US as well...obviously mistaken or else somebody is misbehaving lol.

Saying that, I know a few hobbyists here in the UK with illegal species; that have managed to acquire them one way or other...no fish would make me illegally import though :O

 

[Oddball]

Does this aro in Denmark look familiar?

 

[Oddball]

He also said he ships them with a city permit

There's no such thing as a City shipping permit. I think your're referring to CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora).

 

[stratos]

I've taken the time to call up scammers on occasion, kind of entertaining to do once, gets boring after that.

Here is a thread from Canada with lots of information about these sorts of scams: http://www.arowanaclub.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=4924

 

[Mikefallen13]

I see these ads all over Craigslist, definitely just scammers trying to take your money.

 

[Oddball]

They've been running the same scam for a decade. Check out their awesome customer testimonials at the bottom of their website:

Testimonials
"This is sample testimonial from a sample source." -- Sample Client, Location

"This is another sample testimonial from another sample source." -- Sample Client, Location

 

[Mikefallen13]

I think there needs to be a sticky about this issue, especially if it comes up often.

 

[Oddball]

I think there needs to be a sticky about this issue, especially if it comes up often.

Good idea. Title edited and thread stuck.