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Old 09-05-2014, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Scythanith View Post
Unfortunately it won't matter. The customs/border agent see's a "stick like" coral and holds up the shipment for a CWS agent to come and look at it. By the time CWS gets there to look at it it's like been a couple days and the coral will be dead. The risk to store owners/importers will become too great.
Dead is the only way you can accurately identify an acropora anyways.

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....sounds like the inspection process itself will become a hazard to corals.
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