Transporting coral frags

[ka2zesmi786]

Hi there. Basic question: how would you go about transportating frags on a 3-4 hour drive? What kind of special precautions are needed? Should I be worried about temperature and water quality (oxidation) being depleated? Also what about fish as well.

 

[derek4real]

styrofoam container out of direct light should be good.

 

[jeff@zina.com]

Corals -- Wet paper towels in a bag.

Fish -- 1/3 water in bag, the rest oxygen, in a styrofoam container or cooler.

Jeff

 

[mike_cmu04]

Just put them in a small bucket with a lid they will be fine.

 

[evoracer]

I put frags into their own styro containers, in a cooler with a bottle of warm water to maintain overall temp. I have great success transporting from SoCal back to SLO this way.

 

[wickedfish]

should be fine with a larger bag of water and air like when people send you frags from out of state, they usually take between 14-24 hours and well most the time they make it okay and thats with all the shaking and mishand;ling of the ups/fedex or good handling whos to tell but in your time frame should be good. But I do see the styro alot

 

[iamwrasseman]

bag them like your LFS and put in styro container ? easily done

 

[ka2zesmi786]

thanks all for the input. i shall attempt this ^^v

 

[iamwrasseman]

best wishes , i have purchased fish on saturday night and have traveled overnight into late sunday with no issues .