How to get fish for Christmas day?

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I'm getting fish for Christmas but I want to know if there is ANY way of getting them sent for Christmas day on the 25. I know I couldn't get them on Christmas eve since they would all suffocate (Or would they?). I also thought about getting them delivered for the 25th but I'm guessing that there are no delivery services that deliver on Christmas day.

Any help? Please?
 
Are these for you or a gift? I dont know if you can get shipping for xmas. If you get them before xmas just run an airator or set up a quick Q-tank and run an airator. I am in the process of moving and all my fish are in temp tanks, most fish will do fine with the bare minimum of just an airator and water changes for a week or two
 
hard to do.. but I did get my husband our cat for x-mas a few years ago.. and just put a collar in the card and wrote a cute lil' note for him, we picked her up the next day. get inventive... hard to say.. otherwise put the fish in a tank and "wrap" the tank.
 
MonsterMinis said:
hard to do.. but I did get my husband our cat for x-mas a few years ago.. and just put a collar in the card and wrote a cute lil' note for him, we picked her up the next day. get inventive... hard to say.. otherwise put the fish in a tank and "wrap" the tank.
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My brother got a bit of a shock when we got up xmas day and there was a 55 gallon tank on a stand with hood all wrapped up in the living room. It was one of my dads custom pine stands. It looked like a wall of wrapping paper. Just shy of 6 feet tall with the full lighted wood hood on it.

Get the fish before or after for safety I would think. Although they can be shipped its best they don't sit around very long.
 
MonsterMinis said:
hard to do.. but I did get my husband our cat for x-mas a few years ago.. and just put a collar in the card and wrote a cute lil' note for him, we picked her up the next day. get inventive... hard to say.. otherwise put the fish in a tank and "wrap" the tank.
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Thanks, Nice idea, I really like it. The only problem is what about the corals I'm getting? Do they need a more massive amount of detail whilst acclimating them? I don't mind about the positions My parents put them in, I can just move them around. And also, What about the Freshwater and salt shrimps? They have to be acclimated over a period of 3 hours. It would be hard for my parents to pull off :/
 
Only issue is what if you get them the night before, wrap the tank up and then open the paper to see floating dead fish and bad quality water? Sometimes the fish are too stressed from travel and they just die the next day.
 
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