Our industry has long been aware of the risky investment asian imports can be. We at GBU Enterprises being aware of this issue have chosen our importer with great care. Through him we have learned of the unscrupulous way animals can be  treated overseas. Starting with the collectors, our collectors only collect during the season best suited for each species, ensuring better health and acclimation. Only juvenile or sub adults are accepted for this very reason. Animals are not collected by pouring poisonous liquids like gasoline down their holes.
There are two grades of animals available for sale, food grade and pet grade. Food grade animals are kept in very poor conditions as they are only meant for food or medicinal purposes. Food grade animals have been known to have had their gall bladders removed. They are also pumped full of liquid to make them appear "fat and sassy" which increases their weight there for increasing their value. These animals come in looking really good. They will even feed, but then a slow decline is noted or they  suddenly just die due to the trauma to their digestive system caused by the forced pumping of fluid into them.
We have chosen to spend more on pet trade animals. These animals come in very clean. Our last shipment was over 100 animals. We did not find a single mite. The animals might be a bit thinner, but this is because they have not been artificially pumped to look heavy. They are all young animals and when available captive bred overseas. They have been collected with care because the collectors understand the  value of these animals in their health not their weight.
So it is important to ask how these animals have been collected and what were they collected for.
We hope this information has been helpful to you as there are many wonderful asian animals out there that can greatly benefit by hobbyist taking greater interest in breeding them as habitat loss will continue and the "need" for food or so call medicine overseas will not stop, as much as we all wish it to end.

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