Re: [Killietalk] Flying Fish

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" Quien sabe?" Se claro, que es el pergunta? 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: whuntley at verizon_net
To: killietalk at aka_org
Sent: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Flying Fish


I just returned, last month, from Singapore, with a lot of small fish 
and shrimps (maybe 100 of each?).

I took with me a few fish, in breather bags, and all arrived in fine 
shape. I had saved a small styro with thick walls in a cardboard outer 
box that would fit inside my large suitcase. Both going and coming, I 
used that box and just checked it through in my luggage. I used the big 
box-liner breather bags between the styro and cardboard, to catch any 
possible leaks. My routing involved plane changes (both ways) at Taipei, 
and I had no problems with the officials. I anticipated some with 
customs/USF&WL on entering the states, but I declared the fish and some 
excessively expensive camera accessories and they just waved me on 
through. Quien sabe?

Breather bags are not good for large numbers of fish, I found. I lost 
most of the pygmy catfish and a few each of the 3 species of dwarf 
Rasboras (Boraras species). Many, if not most, of the shrimps came 
through OK. Of those, I had some crystal reds, some cherries, and some 
plain cleaner shrimp. All were under 1" long.

Lesson learned: Don't pack 20-30 small fish in a single bag. One dies, 
they all may. Divide the shipment into as many smaller bags as possible, 
heat-sealed as flat packs (not golf balls), and taped to stiff cardboard 
dividers so they cannot slide around. [Ronnie Lee taught me that trick 
and it's a really good one.] You can get an enormous number of small 
fish in a 6" cubic space, that way.

Going, I had used several microfiber wash cloths as packing, but the 
breather bags did shift around way too much. Ronnie's trick stops that 
problem cold. [Eliminates getting trapped in a fold or corner.]

2nd Lesson: Buy camera stuff here. It is cheaper than in SG, unless it 
is only available there. I got a 90 mm macro lens that still hasn't been 
released in the US. Otherwise, I found my camera-accessory purchases 
were not big bargains.

Lesson 3: Aquarium stuff is really cheap there. CO2 diffusers, little 
glass display tanks, and aquarium plants are big bargains.

Wright

Allan Semeit wrote:
> When you are flying, what is the best way to take fish to and from an event? 
> With the TSA no longer allowing you to carry on a container with fish, that 
> leaves check-in or having the fish shipped.  The latter can be a problem 
> when you don't know what you might take home and aren't around on a Monday 
> to get to the post office.
>
> A few years ago, Monty Lehman showed me his hard plastic cooler on wheels 
> that he used.  What do you use?
>
> Allan from Arizona 
>   


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