Am I allowed to bring live sand/live rock home from Mexico?

[Niven]

We are going on Spring Break to Mexico in a few weeks. Am I allowed to bring a ziplock/tupperware/water bottle of live sand and chunks of rock in my checked baggage? I would love the diversity added to my new tank, although it seems a lot of reefers now don't seem to want to take the chance of possible negative things???
Thank you,
Niven

 

[kfisc]

I'd call the airline and check, as well as TSA.

 

[Reefing102]

I wouldn’t risk it. There’s a whole list of potential issues besides TSA. There’s potential CITES issues in addition to other potential import regulations.

I would contact TBS or Gulf Live Rock about getting their gulf live sand.

 

[game misconduct]

check tsa first you also might wanna rethink about adding wild collected stuff added to your clean system unless you have/can set up a dedicated tank just for the collected stuff i used to collect stuff from my local beach fishing spots ended up with some odd mantis looking bugs in alot of my tanks along with these parasites that were all over these small shrimp i netted off the pilings from fishing docks.even these tiny blue jelly fish that came off some eel grass. yeah lots of neat stuff but really crazy parasites can infect your fish like gill isopods etc. while other stuff is really destructive socal has these green colored hermits that eat anything from zoas,shrooms to bristle worms.i woke up to a nano tank with all my zoas and shrooms gone

 

[griss]

I wouldn’t risk it. There’s a whole list of potential issues besides TSA. There’s potential CITES issues in addition to other potential import regulations.

I would contact TBS or Gulf Live Rock about getting their gulf live sand.

This. I would not want to spend time in a Mexican prison.

 

[Niven]

This. I would not want to spend time in a Mexican prison.

Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?