Hey all! I'm probably about a few months away from shipping my first fish. I'm waiting for some albino long fin bristlenose plecos to get bigger so I can choose a male to keep and then I'll want to sell the rest, and my female cockatoo cichlid just laid her first batch of eggs in the new breeding tank where no one will eat the fry lol.
Anyway, I obviously want to know all I need to BEFORE shipping and be totally prepared. When I receive fish in the mail, I often get them in a styrofoam box (inside the cardboard box of course). Where do I get the styrofoam boxes? I know where to buy the fish bags online, but what about oxygen in the bag? Do I need to buy one of those oxygen machines to inject the oxygen in? Maybe a fish store would let me use theirs? I don't like the blue solution that fish sometimes are shipped in. Every single time (all 3 times lol) that I've received a bag with a dead fish in it, the fish were in that blue solution. Is a sedative necessary? I'm guessing the disposable ice packs and heat packs can be bought on Amazon unless anyone knows of a cheaper or better place to get them? Any other tips and advice would be awesome!
Anyway, I obviously want to know all I need to BEFORE shipping and be totally prepared. When I receive fish in the mail, I often get them in a styrofoam box (inside the cardboard box of course). Where do I get the styrofoam boxes? I know where to buy the fish bags online, but what about oxygen in the bag? Do I need to buy one of those oxygen machines to inject the oxygen in? Maybe a fish store would let me use theirs? I don't like the blue solution that fish sometimes are shipped in. Every single time (all 3 times lol) that I've received a bag with a dead fish in it, the fish were in that blue solution. Is a sedative necessary? I'm guessing the disposable ice packs and heat packs can be bought on Amazon unless anyone knows of a cheaper or better place to get them? Any other tips and advice would be awesome!