I am looking for help in shipping fish from Socal. Anyone have experience and willing to help for a fee? Victorville area would be ideal.
Shipping Help in Socal
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Can you be more specific?
What do you mean by help?
Shipping fish is the same everywhere.
Get a styrofoam box, enough plastic bags, rubber bands, and fill bags about half air and enough water to cover the fish, maybe some heat packs.
If the fish have spines on fins etc, I wrap the entire bag in duct tape to prevent leaks.
Pick a shipper....Fed-X, UPS, or even the US post office.
But in theory they all use the same planes, so its mostly about cost.
Check weather where you are, and where they are going, and any hub they might stop.
Starve fish for a couple days before shipping so their waste doesn't foul the bags, and in case of a flight delay.
If you use the USPS, and pick a time limit, (I have always used 24hour shipping for fish, no longer).... with USPO if it arrives late, you can be reimbursed for the cost of shipping, as far as I know, the other shippers don't providee that guarantee (but things can change).
Small fish usually ship better than large ones (I always add a few extras), and are less water weight so less expensive, a box of a few small fish usually cost about $50 using USPS.
What do you mean by help?
Shipping fish is the same everywhere.
Get a styrofoam box, enough plastic bags, rubber bands, and fill bags about half air and enough water to cover the fish, maybe some heat packs.
If the fish have spines on fins etc, I wrap the entire bag in duct tape to prevent leaks.
Pick a shipper....Fed-X, UPS, or even the US post office.
But in theory they all use the same planes, so its mostly about cost.
Check weather where you are, and where they are going, and any hub they might stop.
Starve fish for a couple days before shipping so their waste doesn't foul the bags, and in case of a flight delay.
If you use the USPS, and pick a time limit, (I have always used 24hour shipping for fish, no longer).... with USPO if it arrives late, you can be reimbursed for the cost of shipping, as far as I know, the other shippers don't providee that guarantee (but things can change).
Small fish usually ship better than large ones (I always add a few extras), and are less water weight so less expensive, a box of a few small fish usually cost about $50 using USPS.
Thank you for the reply. I am looking to purchase 5 inch cichlids in SoCal and the seller will not ship so I am hoping some one will package and ship them for me. I will pay them for the time and obviously cover shipping.
5" fish are a difficult fish to ship and to have arrive alive.
The person shipping them would need to be very experienced in shipping those size, and type fish to do it right.
5" cichlids have spines in their dorsal and anal fins, so the chance of puncturing bags is high, so a proper thick triple bag would be needed for each.
These 5 fish would each need to be in separate bags, in a fairly large styrofoam container with a fair amount of water, and oxygen, so heavy enough to bring shipping cost to a expensive level .
From start to finish, (with travel) maybe a 6 to 8 hour job, unless the everything needed was at arms length
I would not want to do it, and could not give any kind of guarantee that they would arrive alive.
Maybe if they were shipped airport to airpot, but then the shipper would also need to be set up with the airline to do it.
The person shipping them would need to be very experienced in shipping those size, and type fish to do it right.
5" cichlids have spines in their dorsal and anal fins, so the chance of puncturing bags is high, so a proper thick triple bag would be needed for each.
These 5 fish would each need to be in separate bags, in a fairly large styrofoam container with a fair amount of water, and oxygen, so heavy enough to bring shipping cost to a expensive level .
From start to finish, (with travel) maybe a 6 to 8 hour job, unless the everything needed was at arms length
I would not want to do it, and could not give any kind of guarantee that they would arrive alive.
Maybe if they were shipped airport to airpot, but then the shipper would also need to be set up with the airline to do it.
