Anyone ever Ship a SPS frag with success?

[meemoo]

I have a friend who wants a frag. Wondering if I ship two day if it will be ok. Its a orange montipora digitata. Going to Colorado.

 

[meemoo]

Mod can you please move this. Sorry

 

[ScottM]

heat pack and a cooler.
send it overnight.

 

[NateHanson]

Orange Digitata? You can probably just put it in an envelope and mail it.

(just kidding).

See if you can find a small styrofoam case, and pack the frag in a secure tupperware (taped shut) inside the styrofoam case, inside a cardboard box. Fed-ex overnight. Since it'll probably cost you $30, I'd wait until a frag swap, and get your buddy a couple nice things from other members (for an extra $20), then you'll be spending the same shipping on a better variety of corals.

 

[ScottM]

cheap hard sided coolers work great too. playmate etc....
throw in a hand warmer (tape this to the box rather than letting it boune around) and some newspaper

 

[meemoo]

Thank you.

 

[Ray]

You can also line any box with styro and that will work fine. but do add a heat pack and ship overnight as Scott said

 

[Moe_K]

I shipped corals to friends in NV and in FL.
I put some in plastic bags, some in a thermos, and some in cheap temporary wanna-be Tupperware containers.
These I packed into styrofoam with heat packs (hand warmers).
The stuff in the wanna-be-Tupperware didn't make it. The lids popped open and the water leaked out. The Thermos was the best method.
If I was going to do it again, I'd save some clean small glass jars and screw the lids on tightly.