Selling Fish Online

[BIGT]

I'm just getting back into having fish again, and i took notice people buy and sell online. i would like to know exactly how people are shipping them i know most do over night shipping. i would like to know like how:
there being shipped what kind of packaging/protection everything i would need to know so fish do not die and its safe for them. i have always though shipping live fish would be a waiste of money casue they can die from what i seen alot of people shipped fish and there still lived and were not dying. thank you for the help. im new to this and would appreciate the help and advice

 

[doktor doris]

I haven't bought fish online, yet.
But I have bought an Axolotyl from a place called Blades Biological (they are an amazing company, they sell EVERYTHING from pond skaters and dragon flies to hissing cockroaches, in fact I bought a starter pack from them for my back-garden nature pond it contained daphnia, water boatmen, lessser water boatmen, pond skaters, everything in fact to make a natural pond overnight. Actually I have become a nature pond evangelist. Oops I digress!). They shipped my axie to me overnight.

The shipping cost 20 quid, but my axie arrived none the worse for wear. They put him in a big, thick plastic bag which was half filled with water and the rest of the bag contained alot of air so the bag was like a baloon. Then the bag sat in a little house of 2 shaped polystyrene pieces. That was then placed in a box which was considerably larger and the gap was entirely filled with those packing 'wotsits'.
Before I bought him I was a little worried about shipping livestock, but having seen how well it can be done I see no problem with it.

Doris

ps.

I really do think everyone should make a pond, but then put no goldfish or similar in it.
Blighty has lost an unreal amount of ponds of late, and lovely wildlife like newts need them desperatly as 'filling stations'. Oh dear there I go again. Sorry

Just in case anyone here wants to buy any of the above, a blood spatter analysis kit, or a slice of human Human Hodgkins Granuloma here is blades web-http/www.blades-bio.co.uk
Oh they also sell loads of marine inverts.

 

[OldMan47]

I do not ship my fish but have received several shipments over the last couple of years. The fish are always packed with very little water and lots of air or oxygen in their bag. That way the water stays oxygenated during the trip. When it is cold, there will be a heat pack in the box that holds the fish bag but it will not be touching the bag. Instead it is separated from the bag and just holding the box warm. The container is always insulated to some degree regardless of the season to prevent excessive heat or cold reaching the fish. Insulation has varied from a preformed foam box to a few layers of crushed newspaper depending on the shipper and the season. From posts that I have read here and elsewhere I have learned that the shipping water is usually mostly "new" water like the fish might see after a huge water change. The fish are not given food for a period of 24 to 48 hours before shipping so that they will not produce as much waste as usual during the trip they are making.
My newly arrived fish seem to always be in fairly good shape so what they are doing must work.