Shipping corals

[woolfe]

I'm about to ship my first coral frag today. I have a tiny foam cooler that I will be shipping in. What do I use for a heat pack? I only have two ideas, a hot hands pack or a first aid heat pack. Is there another kind that I should use?

[daveat]

yes they make 40 hour heat packs specifically for shipping pets let me find a linky

sorry had to look for reciepts SO check out aquabid.com they sell all sorts of shipping supplies!

here is a specific link for some http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/aucti...ing&1171571419

[Woodstock]

I get my heat packs from the hunting/fishing section in Walmart They come in different longevity.

[daveat]

how long woodstock?

uniheat makes them in 40 and 60 hour (that i know of)

[brian_e]

i just got some from walmart that last 24 hours paid $1 for 3 i think

[forestal]

i usually use 2 of the 12 hour variety from the ski place, taped to inside top of cooler

also wanted to put an idea out there , i have shipped all but xenia successfully this way, dry, wrapped in wet papertowels, so moist but no water to get fouled incase of delay....corals produce a protective mucous layer that protects them

[BigAl07]

Originally Posted by forestal

i usually use 2 of the 12 hour variety from the ski place, taped to inside top of cooler

also wanted to put an idea out there , i have shipped all but xenia successfully this way, dry, wrapped in wet papertowels, so moist but no water to get fouled incase of delay....corals produce a protective mucous layer that protects them

What about Zoas, frogspawn, shrooms and rics? Can they survive a 2-3 trip in just moist papertowels?

Allen

[forestal]

i have done all of those as well as clavularia and they did fine... i ship overnight fedex so they are usually <48 hours, but eric borneman has talked of shipping like this for longer than that being ok...reefkeeping has an article about this i think

[BigAl07]

Thanks Dan. I appreciate you're insight and suggestions.

Allen

[forestal]

maybe we should get a frag round robin set up sometime where 1 ships to another to another etc.

[Triggerjay]

I would be in for something like that... Round robin would be cool!... Never thought about that before...

Jason

[forestal]

over at fragexchange we do it a lot, person a ships a frag to person b who ships a frag to c, etc

[BigAl07]

I'm sort of lost here... how does that work?

Allen

[panmanmatt]

Originally Posted by BigAl07

I'm sort of lost here... how does that work?

Allen

For example, I send a frag to you from my tank, you turn around and send a frag from your tank to Triggerjay, triggerjay send a frag from his tank to forestal and forestal sends a frag from his tank to me. Each person pays shipping when they send out the frags and everyone involved gets a free frag.

[BigAl07]

Gotcha. That makes sense. Cool idea

Allen