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Old 02-28-2011, 06:09 PM
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Good one! I just got an email from him what he had sent the frags by Fedex (?) and the tracking info indicates that they would arrive tomorrow. Is this normal? IT would seem to me that there is a high likelihood of mortality with overnight shipping. I've only ever seen shipping by Air Canada or WestJet, has anyone here had any experience with corals shipped by Fedex? Also, and this is the funniest part, they're predicting a stormy day for us here tomorrow so it probably won't get here anyway!
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Old 02-28-2011, 06:18 PM
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Coral by fedex..... Idk how anyone else feels (and for the record I know zip about shipping) but 2 days in a bag cannot be a good thing so I predict 50% DOA
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Old 02-28-2011, 06:22 PM
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I had an old shipping box laying around from about a year ago and he did use Fedex. All the carriers would most likely be overnight, If he puts in enough heat packs you should be fine.

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Old 02-28-2011, 06:24 PM
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overnight is fine as long as its packaged properly and you get the package on time.

smart thing to do is check weather paterns before shipping......
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Old 02-28-2011, 07:02 PM
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I guess I figured it would take more then a night by truck
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Old 02-28-2011, 07:16 PM
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Oh I'm think'in they would fly it there....Fedex fleet of aircraft, 670 ..... Air Canada/ Jazz .....325
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Old 02-28-2011, 07:16 PM
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Yes, he emailed me back to say that it is normal and he put in lots of heat packs. Crossing my fingers for now!
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See that's how much I know about shipping I thought fedex only had ground service
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Fedex overnight is just the next step below air delivery.

In both cases heat packs would still be used. They'd just put more in if using Fedex.
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Old 02-28-2011, 08:09 PM
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Yes, he emailed me back to say that it is normal and he put in lots of heat packs. Crossing my fingers for now!

its fine they spend more time then that coming here to this country in most times less than ideal conditions, in an ideal box he would have a box with a styrofoam cooler and in each cooler would be bags with water mostly filled and the frag should be mounted on styrofoam and elasticked to the frag to keep it from getting dry if the package tips and to keep it from bouncing around....lps would be different or any big pieces of coral. they should have heat packs enough for 48 hrs


a little word of advice is to take a thermometer and refracometer or hydrometer with you and get the readings on video for the sainity and temp....take pics and a video of the package immediately soon as you get it
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