The mail dos a number on me..

[Chris helland]

So i ordered 8 L200, and the post man cam to my house, but nockt on the wrong dore. So i didn't get my fish today which was shipped for 25 hours ago.. Argued with the mail for about 1 hour but got no real answer on what happend on top of that i have to wait 24 more houers to get my fish.

What are my odds?
How bad is it? Invested 518$ in this.. God dammit so mad.

[Acanthicus]

If the fish are packed well, they will be fine. Only bad thing that could happen is a cold storage room, but agencies shipping animals know about this as well.

Good luck!

[Bas Pels]

Once a load of fishes was sent from the US to Europe, the day before thanksgiving. Something was wrong with the reservation, and the fishes had been in transit for 48 hours - the sender was not available, most likely he had dropped the fishes and went to family

Most - some 75 % of the fishes made it. I meself was unlucky, my bag seemed to contain 8 dead fishes. But, as I was prepared, I had 2 buckets with clean water ,and I put 4 in each. 4 fishes, in each bucket 2, swam after an hour, and when I got home, 3 hours later, I put the swimming fishes and the corpses into their tank - I did not want to admit the other 4 were dead.

The day after 2 corpses had swam away. It were Gymnogeophagus balzanii, a fish from clean lakes. I did not loose any of them, in fact they did not even get itch.

I'm writing this because a fish might seam to be dead, but it is not. Don't accept the idea of them being dead

[thefredpit]

I've actually had bristlenose last 7 days in the mai I was shocked

[Chris helland]

Good to know! I must say that i don’t have any high hope, but time will show. Calling the postman tomorrow morning to make sure the first packaged they deliver is mine. That’s the one good “privelige” I got out of that one houer argument. Hopefully 8/8 will be alive.

I am counting on the sellers packing to be good, the only thing that concerns me is that heat packs only last about 40h give or take

[Chris helland]

So I got to pic it up at the district terminals. The water was about 20c/68f, whitch is cold. But agents all odds there was no casualties!







Some are hiding in plain sight, some are not.
Thank goodness for a happy ending

[Jobro]

Wow, congrats!!! You really have to compliment the seller for the good packaging and the mail service for storing them in a warm place.

20°C is plenty warm! I would have expected the water to be around 5°C by now or lower. After all it's winter in Norway, right?

My last shipment of plecos came in at 11°C. And that was with only 12h of shipping time. Fish were fine after I defrosted them xD

[bekateen]

Good, for you (and for the fish too)! I've had this experience once with shipped corys, but I managed to track the fish down on the same day.

Enjoy your new fish,
Eric

[Chris helland]

3C in Norway now, so I’m really pleased that they stored it in a warm place, an the seller did do a good job.

So I’m happy.

5c!!? That’s cold, wow

[Chris helland]

Thanks Eric, I will