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second2n0ne

Attatch the frags to something that is bouyant...a piece of styrofoam works well.  Place the frag attached to styrofoam into a bag of water from your tank.  Double/triple bag it and fill the bag with air from a airstone pump (kinda like your LFS does).  Place it in an insulated container and also place a heater pack with it.  Heater packs are $.99 and available at camping stores, Walmart (camping/sporting goods section).  Make sure there is enough packing material around the bag to ensure it does not bounce around during transit.  HTH

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I've heard of shipping them in little thermos containers. The kind kids use in lunchboxes. That should keep the temperature ok as long as the shipping is just a couple of days.

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toyfreek sent me a piece of frag in a fil container with water. the container is surrounded by shredded paper so it wont bounce around in the box. when i received it, the water and cool and the frag seems to be doing good.

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my i meant film container. the thermos little kids use will add more weight. man if you live near a university, their labs always have stero-boxes. i work in a biochem lab so we get stero-boxes everyday, since we use so much dry ice...they use it in experiments, but i use it to get my sodas cold.

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actually they aren't film containers they are Urine specimen jars I found at the surplus store for $.15 each.

Thermoses are best but shipping increases greatly.

HTH,

Toy

 

(Edited by Toyfreek at 9:30 pm on June 4, 2002)

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i had thought they were film containers because i heard you and 53 talking about it. i was kinda puzzled at the size of the container itself. what kinda film would have come in that container. who would have thought it was a urine speciment container.

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thegr8tdane

thats good I thought I was slow or something cause it did nt look like a film cannister. I read that post with the 2 of them too.

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Lizbeth,

Spelling isn't my thing sorry, also from the spelling of my user name in your post it's not yours either:)

Toy

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the reason we didn't use film containers was we were shipping branching sps's and they were too large for the film cans. I liked em so now I'll use em since they are so cheap and large. they afford alot more water and air than a regular film can.

Toy

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