SPS Shipping?

Hello everyone,

I am about to ship a few frags of SPS to Colorado. I know how I want to ship and would like to know what you think.

Every frag is double or triple bagged with 2-3 inches of water. The bags are then wrapped in a few pieces of newspaper to insulate. The bags are then placed upright in a box and surrounded with peanuts and crumpled newspapers. Since the weather is hot where I am (90's) and hot where the frags are going (90's) I was going to add a chilling pack, which will be wrapped in newspaper to prevent direct contact with the frag bags.

My question is, what kind of chilling pack do I use? Where do I purchase these packs? And finally, how does my shipping method sound?

Also, we are both shipping on Monday for a Tuesday delivery, but what measures should we both take to ensure that the packages have been shipped and they are not simply withholding the package? I just want to ensure a safe and enjoyable trade with no hitches.

Thanks in advance,

Robert

 

Shipping method is good, don't know where to get the cold packs. I would just google them.

 

anyone ever try some chunks of dry ice? I ship frozen birds in the spring and summer this way. they are frozen when they arrive.

 

If you were closer, we have a 3reef member that is local for me giving a bunch of the freezer packs away. He just placed a big order form DFS for frozen food and has a ton of them.


I think any shipping store will have those. I save these up for such instances from friends shipping fish from alaska and such. You never know when you will need them.

Other than that, yeah, sounds good.

I had a friend take a 1.75 oz cylindrical container on the plane containing an SPS frag from my tank. Granted he was leaving that afternoon, but he went from MKE to DIA with no issues and the coral fared totally fine.