Re: [Killietalk] Breather bags

["J. C." <hillbillynursery at yahoo_com>]

  Tony and all,
 
    I can say and will say again the shipment I got from Tony this morning was great. They are all in the same quaritine tank as of right now with a few plants and mops for hiding. Several of the fish are coming out and being friendly. There was no leaking bags either. I did not even find any water in the outer bags so the first sealing did its job. I have to say I was shocked at the small amount of water used but they are in better shape than all the other fish I have recieved through the mail but that has been limited. The fish were given a small amount of grindal worms which they quickly took. But I never give fish a big gut load after traveling. I plan on taking the next bit of cash I get from sale of fish eggs to get me a batch of these breather bags.
 
                                                              Later, John

Tony Terceira <terceira at ride_ri.net> wrote:
At 07:21 PM 8/3/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>After my experiences with Kordon breather bags, I have started refering to
>them as "leaker bags." Ever open up a container with well over 50 small
>breather bags separated by layers ot foam? One reason the fish had so 
>little water
>was the quart we poured out of the luggage.
This is the kind of comment that is most interesting, blame the 
product not the packer............ I have been using breather bags 
exclusively for 6 years, I ship 4 to 6 boxes of killies per week.

I think that I have had one bag leak in the 6 years! . I use 
60-70ml of water per killie, heat seal the bag flat .... one bag hold two 
fish separated, I then double bag the pair in another breather 
bag.........................

My longest experience is 17 days for a shipment and everything 
arrived in great shape.................

This reminds me of the e mail I got a while back from a killie 
keeper who had ordered and received 3 pr of killies, It went something 
like this ..............." I received your shipment this morning, all 
fish were healthy and alive and I am happy to report that they are actively 
swimming in their new home. Although they have only been in their new tank 
for a few hours, they are already eating and sparing with each other. I 
do not know how you can be so cruel to the fish, they were in so little 
water . you should learn to ship fish in sufficient water for the 
fish....................................."


Tony
Tony Terceira
Scituate, Rhode Island

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