Ship your aquatics online. Overnight shipping is expensive. The more pounds you add the more expensive. It's not uncommon for me to pay 60 to $75 to ship a mushroom across the country with less than 12 oz of water.
I originally bought an air pump and a couple of small heaters. I wanted to put them in (2) 5 gallon buckets. It’s going to be about a 3 day trip.
Los Angeles to Portland.
So that's about 15 hours straight. I would be taking them with me.
I’m not making the trip in one shot otherwise I would have. Leaving weds and arriving Friday evening so about 3 day trip. I have a uhaul and will be towing my car. Wanted to stop in Monterey for some diving, red oaks Friday morning before continuing up to Portland.
My LFS said they can watch the fish for about $5 a day and then ship them out to me. Not sure if they would get a better rate for shipping. Makes me wonder how any of these shippers can send this stuff while still making money and charging a $40 shipping fee
This might be a good resource: https://shipyouraquatics.com/
Where in LA are you?
My business did some direct to consumer shipping and we had a fedex account, we negotiated our rates ahead of time and generally were much cheaper than consumer rates.
How long did i
im in Long Beach. I was actually looking at getting a 30 Qt live bait box since it’s a cooler and has a battery air stone but can’t find any close by to me.
If I go the cooler option, I’m not going to bag individually.
Did your question get cut off? Also be careful with what liverock you put in cooler with fish, depending on the rock it can disintegrate into the water with all the moving around during transport. Like for one bucket I thought I was being smart putting purigen blocks in there for bio filter and it completely disintegrated and made the water completely cloudy. Now I only use sponge filters for this. I auctually just moved a bunch of fish this weekend from Tampa to Miami and had them in same setup I described earlier for about 24 hours loading and unloading.
