News or not news? Uh, apparently not...

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In the comments section its mentioned this has been Facebook policy for years, just not enforced regarding fish sales. Now the hammer is down apparently...reminds me of Ebay a few years back when you could still squeak through buying 'bootleg' tv shows until they closed that up.

You'll need patience with this vid, some off topic 'slice of life' that kind of wanders.
 
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Interesting, wasn't aware of this development. Just visited a Flowerhorn group I'm a member of but rarely visit, and saw they have a pinned some new rules they seem very serious about as they were almost deleted by Facebook, including: "Please “DO NOT” hold your flowerhorns against the glass (in pictures and videos) and “DO NOT” show parrot fish with your flowerhorns. “DO NOT” put price/phone numbers and or use these wordings : sales, sell, FS, $$, in the descriptions about your post."

So it seems the hammer is down indeed, though as Palmer Aquatics guy points out confirmed storefronts seem to (currently) be still ok -- all the local Arowana sites I peruse appear to be operating as normal, but I guess they have storefront status (as they are indeed shops, if even small). I also wonder if it's just a US policy or international -- groups like PETA aren't very strong here (at least in Thailand).

In any case this could affect quite a few people as the aquarium trade on FB has increased a lot over the last years, though I wouldn't have the slightest idea what % are avg. Joe/Mary casual breeders doing it from their house, and what % are actual FB storefronts with real shops.
 
Just more rules and regulations that will hurt the real hobbyists and have no effect to those that abuse the “system”. Oh well, it’s just Facebook.
 
Can’t sell live fish anymore? Ok.

“Pencils for sale, buy a pencil and get a free fish.”
 
It's such a stupid real and really what is the need and reason to ban the sale of pets? Whats next, it going to be illegal to sell pets in stores? shaking my head
 
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