Packaging corals
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insulated means that it has a styrofoam box, inside the cardboard box.
Get a Bag, put plenty of water so that the coral is hopefully not exposed to open air (depending more on what you're sending). Tie the bag tight with an elastic and make sure there's a layer of air. Place the bag in the styrofoam cube or any type of enclosure, and try to ensure that it's not going to roll around, try and make it so that it's snug inside the cardboard box using more cardboard, styrofoam or whatever you got laying around. Put it in the box and away you go.
Depending on where you live, you might need a heatpack, or even wait til the weather gets cooler if you're somewhere hot.
Get a Bag, put plenty of water so that the coral is hopefully not exposed to open air (depending more on what you're sending). Tie the bag tight with an elastic and make sure there's a layer of air. Place the bag in the styrofoam cube or any type of enclosure, and try to ensure that it's not going to roll around, try and make it so that it's snug inside the cardboard box using more cardboard, styrofoam or whatever you got laying around. Put it in the box and away you go.
Depending on where you live, you might need a heatpack, or even wait til the weather gets cooler if you're somewhere hot.
www.kensfish.com and www.jehmco.com are both good/trustworthy sellers of shipping supplies.
You may want to look into using thermoses to ship corals, thats how a lot of people are trading them these days. Generally no need for heat packs, and they're pretty much leak proof. Just don't use the ones with glass linings.
Andy
You may want to look into using thermoses to ship corals, thats how a lot of people are trading them these days. Generally no need for heat packs, and they're pretty much leak proof. Just don't use the ones with glass linings.
Andy
The thermos and beating around debate is basicaly bunk. Packaged correctly, a hard coral will have styrofoam attached to its base / plug to ensure it's always submerged - that alone should keep the coral itself off the walls.
Thermoses don't leak - bags do. There's a reason why so many people shipping corals have moved to hard containers. My preference is a throwaway ziplock container, with some insurance (duct tape). in a DIY foam box - but to each their own. I know those trading wrigglers like using gatorade bottles in the (last years promo) 6 bottle cooler they came with. Thermoses serve 2 purposes, they insulate and they hold water, creating a almost errorproof shipping method.
Andy
Thermoses don't leak - bags do. There's a reason why so many people shipping corals have moved to hard containers. My preference is a throwaway ziplock container, with some insurance (duct tape). in a DIY foam box - but to each their own. I know those trading wrigglers like using gatorade bottles in the (last years promo) 6 bottle cooler they came with. Thermoses serve 2 purposes, they insulate and they hold water, creating a almost errorproof shipping method.
Andy