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sorry if this is a dumb question but i have been hearing a lot about fluker farms lately and i guess i missed the boat but whats the deal?

put in FLuker and just read them all, both on this forum and look above where it says old archives, there is pleanty of history on them from the past in the old archives

yes, but you can only get to 100 out of the 749 matches. What specifically should we be searching for?

Especially since I find that the biggest problem was the sick animals. There are plenty of posts where people are perfectly happy with other products. Even I've been using the freeze-dried crickets and the lamps for two years and haven't had any problems.

So far I've found posts complaining about the vines that bleed when wet, and a post on the cricket supplies.

You may want to compile a list of all threads containing complaints and then all threads containing people that find their products fine and compare the two. I mean, there has to be someplace you could take the evidence to get them shut down if they really were so bad. It doesn't make sense that any environmental/ animal controll agency would let them do ANYTHING at the first wiff of disease that could escape into the wildlife. Even if they're outside the US, they wouldn't be allowed to import any product. All US branches would probably be shut down immediately, and all products pulled from store shelves. Unless they don't know, or just aren't paying any attention whatsoever. I have no expert knowledge whatsoever in this field, so I'm just speaking out of what I think would be the intellegent thing to do (and from reading on the forums what people get taken from them all the time for the smallest of reasons). It just seems these agencies are so strict, how could they be lax on this? Please feel free to inform me if it's any different from that.

Thanks for reading, I'm trying to learn as much as I can about this whole Flukers thing.

that way.

Many people have tried, by contacting Health departments, Dept of Argiculture, Customs and Fish and Game.

Those agencies never report back what they do, if anything, it just seems nothing is ever done. There reptiles, they don't care, now... if they were dogs it would be a different story and someone was importing and selling diseased animals, not once ... but at least twice recently, they would be shut down... it just does not happen that way with reptiles.

Try the old fourm archives, put in Fluke... I serously doubt you will find much good there.

and thier "contest" that many people were NOT winners in. These are comments by the winners of what was going on in just a little over a weeks time last year.

Also if you go into the knowledgebase, Industry News there are some other articles about them.
And the Winners Are.......

This disturbing episode? That is one of the worst things ive read! Hope somthing was or has been done for the winners and the beardies, and i am SURE we wont spend our money on the dirt bags that did that. sorry for all that had to go through that. scott

Now their back to selling dragons to at least PetSmart that we know of and there is probably more.... we knew something was up when after several months there were hardly any reports of sick and dying baby dragons, then they started again in mass recently.

They did the same thing with iguana's several years ago and most new people never knew about the problems... I guess they figure people will forgot or never know and they can get away with it again. They never took responsiblity for the dragons last year that died, or that infected other dragons....... including many that are still showing up as they have offspring and the offspring are dying, when the do and the owners have a necropsy or viral test, they are showing up with the same virus we know the ones shipped in from them had last year, it never goes away, so dragons survive it, but they are carriers and infect others, now, next month or next year.... when exposed to other dragons or they have offspring it happens.