Thanks Cyndy, hope to see you in a couple weeks at the Upscale Reptiles
show in San Jose! The gal up in Pelican has a supply of crix. I am sure
they are used for bait, fishing is popular up there!
Julie B.
Cyndy wrote:
Congratulations on a job well done. How are they going to get feeders for the gex way
up there?
Cyndy
-- Julie Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Gexers,
Man this list is quiet! Thought I would tell you all about my shipment
of Leopards to Pelican, Alaska last week! Pelican is 70 air miles north
of Sitka and 70 miles west of Juneau. That is waaaay up there! I was
very careful researching the shipping on this one, to say the least! UPS
could not guarantee arrival in less than five days, and that would cost
a small mint. So, I went postal! LOL! The main Express Mail counter is
about 30 miles from me in Sacramento, I drove the geckos there myself.
From there the geckos went to Seattle, then to Juneau, then to Pelican.
It was a three day ship with a short third day (customer saw mail plane
coming in around 11:00am that day!). Postal shipments are usually kept
inside warm buildings at night. Even considering they might be exposed
to night time temps, the range they were in was in the 40s, very doable
with leos (30F is lowest I will ship).
Materials:
I used a RLD Enterprises 60 hour heat pack and it was still warm when
the geckos arrived. Geckos were on the cool side on arrival. The top
two were active and the bottom guy took a while to be as active, I am
assuming he was coldest. I put three leos individually in 38oz 6.75"
diameter deli cups and used a 12"x12"x10" Superior Enterprise box with
1/2" foam inserts. I have used spongy foam for cold weather shipments
and have found that does not work as well as layering of styro
insulation materials, which is what I did here. I use a combo of bubble
wrap and styrofoam popcorns. I put a single layer of bubble wrap on the
bottom of the box, then a layer of about single popcorns, then another
layer of bubble wrap on top of that covering the bottom portion. I then
put in the leos in their stack of three.
I put bubble wrap on three sides of the box, then filled in with
popcorns. One side I left open for the heat pack. Usually I put these on
top, however, there would not be room and I wanted each leopard to be
close to the heat pack. I opened the heat pack and made sure it fired up
warm, then I taped it in. A bit more popcorn, made an airhole near the
top of the box on the side where the heat pack was.
The USPS did good!
Julie Bergman
www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
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