chaostactics Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Gwtting ready to PCS to Oahu and cant seem to find island/state specific forums or Facebook groups? Any ideas? 1 Quote Link to comment
Thrassian Atoll Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 I was in Hawaii for 4 years. I decided not to set up a tank during that time. You can’t get anything shipped in there. SPS are banned I beleive. Quote Link to comment
Thrassian Atoll Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 If you want a fun hobby, buy a metal detector and hit the water. 2 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 @yoshii might be able to offer advice! 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
liquid_wind Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 I moved to Maui 6 months ago, never was able to get concrete answers. Some said all corals illegal, some said just illegal to import or ship and there are frag trades, some that zoas/softies were ok to collect. In the end I set up a 20g FOWLR with fake corals and go diving on the weekends. I just today started looking into a macro algae tank potentially, but I think my tanks here on out will be FW planted tanks. 1 Quote Link to comment
chaostactics Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 22 hours ago, TILTON said: I was in Hawaii for 4 years. I decided not to set up a tank during that time. You can’t get anything shipped in there. SPS are banned I beleive. I get SPS being banned. In terms of having stuff shipped there, because of laws or because its cost prohibitive? Quote Link to comment
Thrassian Atoll Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 6 minutes ago, chaostactics said: I get SPS being banned. In terms of having stuff shipped there, because of laws or because its cost prohibitive? I think LPS are banned too, pretty much anything with a hard skeleton. From what I remember researching it before I got there, it has more to do with the ecosystem. The laws are in place to protect the reefs from foreign stuff and to keep people from poaching corals from the reefs there. Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 20 hours ago, chaostactics said: I get SPS being banned. In terms of having stuff shipped there, because of laws or because its cost prohibitive? It's laws....check into collecting your own. I believe there is permits to do so. Quote Link to comment
chaostactics Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 On 3/8/2019 at 6:33 PM, Tamberav said: It's laws....check into collecting your own. I believe there is permits to do so. Looked at it, looks like you could only potentially catch fish and that's nearly been eliminated Quote Link to comment
yoshii Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 There's one Facebook group that I know of, but as others have said reefkeeping here is very different. No hard corals allowed to be imported/sold, so it's mostly just fish and inverts. Also please note you can't collect your own live rock/sand or coral. Currently you can't take fish with a fine mesh net (aquarium net) due to the moratorium on commercial aquarium fish collecting. But you can collect Hawaiian soft corals (zoas/palys) as long as you don't take the live rock they are on. I believe you can collect your own CUC inverts too. If you would like LFS recommendations, I would check out Coral Fish in Aiea, they have been there since the 80s and have a large selection of fresh and saltwater fish/inverts. It's also interesting how Hawaiian fish are super cheap (compared to the mainland) but Indo-Pacific fish are more expensive than the mainland. I hope you don't like Atlantic fish because they are $$$. Later this year I plan on setting up a macro tank. I checked online and there are only restrictions on how much macro you can take for 2 species (for consumption). I will double check in the future but I don't think there are any restrictions for collecting other macros. 1 Quote Link to comment
Thrassian Atoll Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Dog beach on Hickam has a lot of zoas/palys randomly throughout the water. Thought it was pretty neat seeing them in the wild like that. Quote Link to comment
This guy is extra salty Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Ok now I’m curious what if you already previously owned a SPS dominant tank and moved there? Guessing would be jail time? Quote Link to comment
yoshii Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 13 minutes ago, This guy is extra salty said: Ok now I’m curious what if you already previously owned a SPS dominant tank and moved there? Guessing would be jail time? Since you can't exactly drive to Hawaii, you'd have to ship everything and they wouldn't let you ship the coral/live rock etc. And yes they take the regulations very seriously. Its to prevent potential invasive species, as Hawaii already has too many lol Quote Link to comment
chaostactics Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 I have tried contacting the "salt water" fish stores on the islands but no ones getting back to me Quote Link to comment
yoshii Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 10 hours ago, chaostactics said: I have tried contacting the "salt water" fish stores on the islands but no ones getting back to me Depending what state you're in..keep in mind the time difference. It's currently 7:50pm here. While it's 1:50am in NYC As I mentioned above, there is a Facebook group if you're interested. Reef Hawaii, you can ask questions there too 1 Quote Link to comment
chaostactics Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 12 hours ago, yoshii said: Depending what state you're in..keep in mind the time difference. It's currently 7:50pm here. While it's 1:50am in NYC As I mentioned above, there is a Facebook group if you're interested. Reef Hawaii, you can ask questions there too I didnt notice the info on the Facebook group. THANK YOU FOR THE LEAD! Fingers crossed for something hopeful with them. Quote Link to comment
yoshii Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 12 hours ago, chaostactics said: I didnt notice the info on the Facebook group. THANK YOU FOR THE LEAD! Fingers crossed for something hopeful with them. People ask about laws and stuff all the time, but members respond quickly! 🙂 They also recommend good spots to collect Quote Link to comment
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