Has anyone seen what 'www.dartfrog.co.uk' is selling?

dmartin72 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-27-2005, 07:49 PM

Has anyone seen what europe is openly selling? How the heck are they getting all these frogs? :shock:

http://www.dartfrog.co.uk/amphibians.html

steelcube · #2 (**permalink**) 05-27-2005, 08:04 PM

I'd say... good for them!!

SB

mnchartier · #3 (**permalink**) 05-27-2005, 09:18 PM

The Dendrobates vanzolinii is a beautiful frog along with the mysterious. Hopefully someday they will become available on the US market.

Dane · #4 (**permalink**) 05-27-2005, 10:01 PM

Those Vicentei are some of the coolest frogs I've ever seen. I really like the arboreus too. How is it that while I'm only about 2500 miles land distance from some of these frogs, I can only dream about them, and yet people separated from them by 5000 miles of ocean have no problem getting them?

ChrisMc · #5 (**permalink**) 05-27-2005, 11:15 PM

It would be nice to obtain those legally... Who in their right mind would sell a breeding group of mysteriosus or pairs of vanzolinii??

*GREASER* · #6 (**permalink**) 05-28-2005, 12:01 AM

I have come across that site a few times and I could never beleave that what they were selling was true. I would keep looking at the last time it was updated and it was always very recent. I thought for sure it was some outdated site that had frogs for sale when they were less popular. If they only sent frogs over to the states. One of my good friends has a bunch of friends all over the Uk. I wonder if they could get them sent over here.

#7 (**permalink**) 05-28-2005, 12:17 AM

Those frogs are amazing The pumilio blow my mind I cant wait until I get mine. :wink:
later

rmelancon · #8 (**permalink**) 05-28-2005, 02:07 AM

There are many more dart frog smugglers overseas than in the US. Less stringent border controls are one reason.

Arklier · #9 (**permalink**) 05-30-2005, 04:52 AM

Not all the rare frogs in Europe are illegally imported. Dart frogging in Europe has been popular for longer than in the US, and was more advanced for a long time, if it's not still more advanced now. Those frogs could be decendants from when all the exporting was going on during the early 90s. Not likely, but possible.

geckguy · #10 (**permalink**) 05-30-2005, 05:10 AM

It is possible that some of the frogs are legal, but in this case they are not.
Some of the frogs were never legally exported from their countries of origin in the first place. I don't believe that the Europeans are more advanced then us, they just put everything in huge expensive vivs, and have access to lots of smuggled frogs.