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Shipping
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Introduction:
Few killifish species are bred or available in
significant numbers for retail sale. Hence the breeding of hard to
obtain "hand collected" fishes from the wild has been "priority
No#1" for killifish hobbyist. Priority
#2 is getting these fish in the hands of other hobbyist; the goal
being to mitigate
loosing the species in the hobby, and for the general enjoyment of fellow hobbyist.
The global postal services and carrier companies are the primary
intermediary between breeder and receiving hobbyist. Preparing and
packaging livestock using a tried & true methods has
proved key to mitigating environmental hazards common to overland &
air transportation. The successful transportation of
fish via the mail has expanded the hobby into
a truly global community.
The Internet and Knowledge Exchange
Obviously the internet & email has facilitated
knowledge transfer between hobbyist. But the internet makes no
distinction between good information or bad. this site and this
article is hardly the authority on the subject of shipping, but the
text that follows can
offer safe, consensus based testimony:
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A hobbyist shipping success increases with both
experience and exposure. "Experience" entails both
absorbing commonly accepted practices/regulations, while "Exposure" means being on the receiving end of competently
packaged livestock.
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Certain shipping practices a recipient may
encounter borderline somewhere between inexperience and outright
malice. Usually the prospective buyer or trade partner can
distinguish between the two. Opinion may vary on what
constitutes a bad practice, and is somewhat subjective, but
clearly some practices are universally accepted as poor (or at
the very least significantly increase the risk of
failure)...these are:
- Using a single bag
- Using 100% old/poor water for bagging livestock
- insufficient air or water volume
- Shipping diseased, injured or stressed
livestock
- Placing multiple specimens in one bag (unless
it was unpractical to do so)
- Using a package of insufficient
durability/strength or insufficient insulation value
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