Any LFS selling Fire Salamander?

[denlim]

Hi,

Anyone knows where to get Fire Salamander or Newt? I posted a thread earlier but it went missing. So, post again.. Hope I'm not doing anything wrong this time.

Tks!

[silane]

Can someone tell me if fire newt is allowed to be sold as pet in Singapore?

[silane]

Originally Posted by dkk08

Ambystoma tigrinum aka Tiger Salamander would be a much more easy to care for salamander. They've a great size too, up to almost 8-10in and they're very tame too as they would literally eat off your hand! Sometimes the young of a tiger salamander aka waterdog (which looks like a fish or even an axolotl) would be brought in and sold as fish by mistake. Had a few waterdogs some years back and they morph into adult salamanders after a few weeks.

For this to happen, the exportor has to know they are not salamander, the importor did not know they were importing non fish and the LFS are selling them as fish.... how could these happened so that they can be sold as fish to local hobbyists by mistake??

[dkk08]

Originally Posted by silane

For this to happen, the exportor has to know they are not salamander, the importor did not know they were importing non fish and the LFS are selling them as fish.... how could these happened so that they can be sold as fish to local hobbyists by mistake??

Hi Silane, good qn, have to ask the exporter and the LFS owner liao.

[EvolutionZ]

FYI, fire belly newts are illigal in singapore.

Originally Posted by EvolutionZ

FYI, fire belly newts are illigal in singapore.

maybe it could be something that lloks like a fire belly newt at the lfs. If not wouldnt the AVA fine the lfs and confiscate the newts?

[silane]

So for those asking where to buy illegal species should get infraction???

Just curious, when were the fire belly newts banned?

I still remember in 1998 or so, the zoo had this magazine called "zoo ed", and there was even an article on how to take care of them. Did the zoo know that they were illegal back then?

Or did they suddenly become illegal?

[silane]

Just checked with AVA Fire Salamander is not allowed to be kept as pet. This is the reason when the TS first thread was deleted.

Originally Posted by denlim

Hi,

Anyone knows where to get Fire Salamander or Newt? I posted a thread earlier but it went missing. So, post again.. Hope I'm not doing anything wrong this time.

Tks!

When one's post is missing, think what can goes wrong, and if you make the same post again, it make the mods very busy and we will have to reciprocate with infraction.

Check AVA website for the list of pets can be kept in Singapore, discussion of all pets are allowed but when come to trading, only the legal species in the list are allowed.

This forum has zero tolerance to provide as a platform for trading animals that are not allow by AVA.

And whatever want to buy question, post it in the correct Buy/Sell forum.