I'm in st. Louis

[rudipez]

send it to my house. sombodys always home or, you can the frags in your pocket on the plane. Yeah, it's that serious! Nice pics!

 

[skunkmere]

maybe ill put them in ballons....actually will frags come up in the X-ray scanner?

 

[JPSKI25]

what are you gonna mule them like heroin?

 

[skunkmere]

i got the idea from maria full of grace, .... Skunkmere full of frags..

 

[skunkmere]

hold on i can take 3oz of liquid in a zip lock through the security. can 3 oz of water be enough for a frag to travel?

 

[adamjr]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13601057#post13601057 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ekrunch
One warning with paper towels, if you see little white spots all over your coral, don't panic, it's only paper towel fragments.

What do those frags sell for?

 

[FiberLux]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13597171#post13597171 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ekrunch
The paper towel thing will actually work but the corals aren't going to be happy at all. Either way you'll need a heat pack and a small styro, but i've done it and it works... just get ready for your coral to have a rough night.

I have shipped damp wrapped corals on several occasions with no problems. A few of the online stores ship this way.

In the 11/2005 Reefkeeping magazine, they had an article about shipping corals using this method. Here's the link if you wish to read it: http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-11/eb/index.php

Here's an excerpt from Ron Shimek,

"As Ron Shimek noted in a personal communication, "When I wanted to ship various marine animals from the UW Friday Harbor Labs to various researchers around the US in the early 1970s, I contacted one of my professors, the late Paul Illg. He advised the most sure-fire way to ensure success was to ship the animals "damp, but not wet." If possible, wrapped in some sort of kelp (moisture insurance) in plastic sacks. The animals were kept in an atmosphere of 100% relative humidity. For most animals, this allows the gases to diffuse across the moist respiratory surfaces easily. If the animals are in water - any water - the gas has to diffuse from the animal into the water and then from the water into the air, and vice versa. This diffusion is fast enough if the water layer is very thin, but if it is thick - as in a bag - diffusion of oxygen from the air into the water is too slow to replace what the animal is removing from the water, and the animal smothers. The converse for carbon dioxide occurs, as well. The critter gets a double whammy, all due to the bag of water. Anyway, the point is that Illg learned this shipping method in the 1930s(!) and had been using it since then. It was well known in the invertebrate zoology circles that I "ran" in that one did NOT ship live animals in water and expect much survival."

Boyd