Re: Buying Fauna from Overseas
Hi vannel,
The regulations of AVA states clearly that a person may import a total of not more than 30 fishes in water not exceeding 3L or 5kg for a mixture of different ornamental fish species. It is therefore, not illegal to import or hand-carry fishes into Singapore because it's not practical for an amateur aquarist to apply a license to bring 2-3 fishes into the country.
Unfortunately, it's not the AVA regulations that matters. I think there's a rule for most courier services that they will refuse any parcel containing live animals. These are labelled as "perishables". I think it's got something against their policy. If you are worried, you can try to ask any LFS (maybe C328?) for a transhipper who brings in livestocks at a regular basis.
Anyway, many have done it, so I think it's generally ok.
regards,
Shi Xuan
Last edited by Shi Xuan; 5th Sep 2011 at 18:10.
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