Shipping

[Algae]

Didn't know where to put this... I'm shipping a few inverts (mostly sunspiders) and lizards between Albuquerque and Chicago. My question is, should I use air-tight jars?

[pitbulllady]

Didn't know where to put this... I'm shipping a few inverts (mostly sunspiders) and lizards between Albuquerque and Chicago. My question is, should I use air-tight jars?

I wouldn't use jars, period, but plastic deli cups for the larger Solfugids and I'd use empty medicine pill bottles for the smaller ones, just make sure you tape the lids on the deli cups and use child-proof lids on the medicine vials. With a lizard, you definitely do NOT want to use an air-tight container, since they have active respiration and will certainly suffocate within a short time. Everyone I've ever seen ship snakes or lizards puts them in a small cloth bag and ties it shut, then places the bag inside a Styrofoam shipping box and puts THAT inside a regular plain cardboard shipping box. Any free space needs to be padded with either shredded paper or packing chips, so the containers that the animals are in cannot be jostled around inside the box. Make sure you do not state that there are animals in the box, unless you're using a shipper which permits it, but you will need to indicate that it contains fragile material, and identify which way is "UP" on the box.

pitbulllady