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[redbetta]

Alrighty guys, I need your input. As you know I've got my spawn going and I'm hoping for some fry to hatch soon. I'm at university in a dorm so I will be travelling home at christmas time. I realize this will be pretty difficult but there is no time where I can do this while at uni without going home for a break sometime.
My question is though, if they hatch in a few days, they will be 5 weeks by the time I come home for x-mas, so I'm thinking that's while they are producing their labyrinth organ and need warm air..., how is the best way to ship them home? I was thinking bag them individually, and put them all in a rubbermaid container which they will be released back into when they get home. Or maybe put a few in a bigger bag? I just don't want them to be stressed from the ride. It's about 1 and half hours. Will the air in the bags stay warm enough not to hurt them? Or are there any better ideas? Any help would be greatly apprechiated, I've been thinking about this for 2 months now, and it's definately starting to question me.

Any help is apprechiated, thanks in advance

 

[wuvmybetta]

Do you plan on literally *shipping* them? I don't know, that might be really rough on them. *If it were me, and I was flying home (assuming?) I would put each in a bag and carry them in some sort of soft cooler type thing as a carry on, possibly, if allowed. Or, if driving, take them with you. Even a 24 hour trip via mail is almost too long without food for a five week old. I don't think they'd make it. Even driving with them might be too hard.

*But honestly, if it was me, I would wait until I didn't have anything booked up before I spawned. I plan mine three months in advance. If there's nothing huge and time consuming going on, it's safe to spawn. I had a 5 day vacation away from home back in June, I believe,and a show in July and I didn't have a spawn for months before then, even though I wanted one badly, but they would have been too little to leave in June if I'd of had one. You have to be there every day.


Sooo, with that said, if this spawn falls through, maybe you should re-think your second spawning if you have to leave like that. It would be heartbreaking to lose them and a major problem to move them.

 

[redbetta]

LOL wuv, you're so in detail, I should have explained myself better. I meant to say drive home, like an hour and a half on the highway. I figured if I pack them individually they wouldn't get so shaken up. Let me know if that's ok

I know wuv, but see if I wait until April-May, then the girls and boys will be too old to spawn I think. I have thought about it a ton as well and I'm more worried about their labyrinth. I don't mind packing them individually in bags. And it's going to be warm in the car.
So I thought of doing it after x-mas except 5 weeks after we go back to school we have spring break which is 2 weeks, so at least over xmas they have 3 weeks to recover before the trip back. So I thought this was a better choice than doing it after xmas. Besides here, in Jan. and Feb. it's a lot colder than in the beginning of Dec. And I don't mind driving suuper slow for them not to get shaken up. I'm more worried about their labyrinth and the temp in the bag.

 

[Durbkat]

Couldn't after you bagged them up put them in a cooler and then put a heater pack in the cooler to help keep the temp inside the bag warm?

 

[redbetta]

I was thinking that as well but I wonder if it would actually work.

 

[Durbkat]

If what would work? The heat pack?

 

[redbetta]

yeah the tub is a 20 g

 

[redbetta]

any idea where I could get a heatpack that would heat a 20 g tub?

 

[wuvmybetta]

Oh, an hour and a half is childs play, you can do it!! Just pack them in a cooler with a heat pack taped to the top and you should be good to go. You had me worried last night! I was thinking you were traveling really far.

 

[redbetta]

omg wuv and you scared the #### out of me, I felt like sooo stupid, cause I'd never want to hurt the beebees! LOL thanks for caring so much though, you really are great. So it wont hurt them if its a bit cooler than in their tank normally?

 

[wuvmybetta]

I think they'll be fine for such a short trip
Of course, I'd probably pay money to see your arrival at home..."Kiss,kiss, love ya's...can't talk now, must tend to babies, go get the tank out of the car please, okay thanks!!" as you fly through the door leaving your family standing there with jaws dropped.

 

[redbetta]

ROFL- I'd never fly somewhere with 150 lil baby bettas in the backpack

No really, that's abuse... Poor fishies. I'd NEVER do that, that's pretty dense lol.

 

[wuvmybetta]

ROFL- I'd never fly somewhere with 150 lil baby bettas in the backpack

No really, that's abuse... Poor fishies. I'd NEVER do that, that's pretty dense lol.

It's been done, maybe not with babies but if I recollect Sorrell carried her adults on the plane with her I'd probably feel much better knowing they were traveling with me anyway.

 

[redbetta]

OMG my parents don't understand this at all. I'm home right now, and I brought my microworms with me to see how they grow and they are like what the hell is this? They think it's sooo simple. And where I have to be there next weekend for sure to feed them and maybe other weekends, they just don't understand at all lol. I told them I'll obviously be bringing them home on xmas and they should have known that, but they are like we aren't gunna have the whole house full of fish are we? LOL, just they wait.
The only other thing is, that I'll be doing waterchanges daily and I'm not sure if our water here is good. It's got different pH than what I use at school so hopefully I can figure it out.


haha well a few adults is ok, but 150 individually bagged fish? They'd have a crisis before they saw me coming lol

 

[dwarfgourami]

OMG my parents don't understand this at all. I'm home right now, and I brought my microworms with me to see how they grow and they are like what the hell is this? They think it's sooo simple. And where I have to be there next weekend for sure to feed them and maybe other weekends, they just don't understand at all lol. I told them I'll obviously be bringing them home on xmas and they should have known that, but they are like we aren't gunna have the whole house full of fish are we? LOL, just they wait.
The only other thing is, that I'll be doing waterchanges daily and I'm not sure if our water here is good. It's got different pH than what I use at school so hopefully I can figure it out.


haha well a few adults is ok, but 150 individually bagged fish? They'd have a crisis before they saw me coming lol

Shocks are good for parents, keeps them from getting too middle-aged.

Tell them they should be grateful that it's only FISH babies you're bringing back. Young people have been known to go off to college and come back with more than that....