snowyangel
Fish Gatherer
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We arrived at our final destination yesterday and eagerly opening up our fish that we sent on the plane for 4hrs(bare in mind we also drove 4hrs, then there was a 1.5 hr delay, etc). I for sure thought they would arrive dead with all the mess that was invovled:
Firts, all the personnel at the airport said they had never shipped live fish before(it's just fish in a box, how hard is it to be extra careful and leave it right side up?)then the plane could not insure the fish nor could they put them in cargo with the other pets cus it was closed, then we had to pay $40 extra to ship them b/c they were alive even though they wouldn't be handled any differently then our suitcases. So we paid and went on our way. We continue on to security with our 3 bettas and 5 guppies in tupperware containers inside a cooler( we figured we would have more of a chance of these fish surviving so we took our favorites with us as carry-on) . Now this cooler was small and could easily fit under the xray machine, but me and b/f forgot to mention there was fish inside . So me and b/f both get caught up in metal detacters b/c of our belts, etc. We finally get to our carry on and the bag is soaking with water b/c they put it on it side! We madly dashed to our cooler to put it up right, look inside and our guppies were flicking around with no water in their bowl! So we quickly took out all the containers and poured the water from the bottom of the cooler back in. Wew! After this i thought for sure that box being shipped would be tossed around and arrive upside down as well. Then our flight was delayed by 40mins, and the drive home was another 30mins, making our fish be in the bags for almost 11 hrs not the original 9 hrs we planned for them.
So we get home, and most of the bags had air that excaped, but the fish were all fine and very hungry.
Lets just say the Lord works in mysterious ways....
Firts, all the personnel at the airport said they had never shipped live fish before(it's just fish in a box, how hard is it to be extra careful and leave it right side up?)then the plane could not insure the fish nor could they put them in cargo with the other pets cus it was closed, then we had to pay $40 extra to ship them b/c they were alive even though they wouldn't be handled any differently then our suitcases. So we paid and went on our way. We continue on to security with our 3 bettas and 5 guppies in tupperware containers inside a cooler( we figured we would have more of a chance of these fish surviving so we took our favorites with us as carry-on) . Now this cooler was small and could easily fit under the xray machine, but me and b/f forgot to mention there was fish inside . So me and b/f both get caught up in metal detacters b/c of our belts, etc. We finally get to our carry on and the bag is soaking with water b/c they put it on it side! We madly dashed to our cooler to put it up right, look inside and our guppies were flicking around with no water in their bowl! So we quickly took out all the containers and poured the water from the bottom of the cooler back in. Wew! After this i thought for sure that box being shipped would be tossed around and arrive upside down as well. Then our flight was delayed by 40mins, and the drive home was another 30mins, making our fish be in the bags for almost 11 hrs not the original 9 hrs we planned for them.
So we get home, and most of the bags had air that excaped, but the fish were all fine and very hungry.
Lets just say the Lord works in mysterious ways....
....BTW where did you move...Did you leave CANADA......
Not an easy thing to do, but I'm glad to hear everything worked out 
But now that we have more space I indulged in 6 more khuli loaches 
) It was a good deal, really!
