Going to Aquashella 2022

[merrick]

Hello all - Aquashella is about 4 hours away from my home. How would you suggest I take home my new LPS?

 

[Peace River]

Use a small cooler and a focus on keeping the temperature reasonably consistent and in a healthy range. Good luck at the show!

 

[Gtinnel]

I regularly buy fish and corals from a lfs that is about 4.5 hours away from where I live. A decent cooler should be all you need. Sometimes when it's really cold outside and the cooler is in the trunk I may add a few bottles filled with warm water if I'm worried about temperature getting too low (poor man's heat packs). I will also usually put some towels in the cooler with the bags, just to keep them from moving around and prevent the coral bags from coming in direct contact with the bottles.

Anyway you do it just remember you're going to treat your package way better than FedEx or UPS would.

 

[merrick]

I regularly buy fish and corals from a lfs that is about 4.5 hours away from where I live. A decent cooler should be all you need. Sometimes when it's really cold outside and the cooler is in the trunk I may add a few bottles filled with warm water if I'm worried about temperature getting too low (poor man's heat packs). I will also usually put some towels in the cooler with the bags, just to keep them from moving around and prevent the coral bags from coming in direct contact with the bottles.

Anyway you do it just remember you're going to treat your package way better than FedEx or UPS would.

So once the lps or fish are bagged, you just put them in the cooler. Being in Florida, I would only need to be concerned about the heat.

 

[Gtinnel]

So once the lps or fish are bagged, you just put them in the cooler. Being in Florida, I would only need to be concerned about the heat.

Yes I just put them in the cooler and pack them in with towels that I brought so they don't move around. Sorry I didn't even think about the Florida thing, if too worried about heat you can do the same thing with the water bottles just cool water. I'd guess that in Florida at that time of year the temp won't be too much of an issue, ecspecially if you're only going to be transporting them for about 5 hours or so.

If it puts your mind at ease just imagine how careful you will be with the corals compared to them being shipped overnight on the back of a freezing or incredibly hot FedEx truck.

If you have space to leave the cooler in the passenger compartment of the car that's even better because you keep it a fairly consistent, comfortable temp. If your super paranoid you can leave a cheap thermometer in the cooler and check it a few times and then stop at a gas station and fill the water bottles up with appropriate temp water, although probably wayyyy overkill.

 

[Gtinnel]

I've transported corals and fish from that pet store many times and I've never lost a single one in transport.

 

[Gtinnel]

Once everything I bought wouldn't fit in the cooler so I went to Walmart and bought three of the insulated grocery store bags and put the fish bag inside of the 3 insulated bags and it survived the trip just fine as well.