Shipping Shrimp

[astrobuckeye]

I received 4 peppermint shrimp from ORA via SaltwaterAquarium.com. They were very much DOA, the bag water was foul smelling. And it seemed like a pretty clean overnight shipment and I had them out of the box within an hour of arrival.

I'm being offered a refund or replacement and I'm trying to decide. If shrimp just don't ship well I'd rather try and find them locally. But if this was atypical, I'd like to have them shipped because I wanted captive bred.

Honestly I just kind of feel like how they shipped contributed. They were all in a bag together and there didn't seem to be much in the way of extra air. But I'm not sure what is best practice for shrimp.

 

[Dragen Fiend]

I've never had an issue with any of my CUC's from saltwater aquarium. It might have been a one off shipment. I know my recent order this week of 5 snails/5 hermit crabs arrived with no issues. Even had a family member stop to just float the bag until I got home from work so they were in the bags for another 6 hrs before I got home.

I would have them send you out another one.

 

[Manpeckz]

Be careful of that DOA credit policy the second time through..

 

[moretor1]

I received 4 peppermint shrimp from ORA via SaltwaterAquarium.com. They were very much DOA, the bag water was foul smelling. And it seemed like a pretty clean overnight shipment and I had them out of the box within an hour of arrival.

I'm being offered a refund or replacement and I'm trying to decide. If shrimp just don't ship well I'd rather try and find them locally. But if this was atypical, I'd like to have them shipped because I wanted captive bred.

Honestly I just kind of feel like how they shipped contributed. They were all in a bag together and there didn't seem to be much in the way of extra air. But I'm not sure what is best practice for shrimp.

Shrimp tend to ship better than fish imo.
I've never had a bad time shipping crustaceans

 

[astrobuckeye]

Shrimp tend to ship better than fish imo.
I've never had a bad time shipping crustaceans

I ended up requesting a replacement. Hopefully they make it okay. I was pretty bummed to see a bagful of dead shrimp.

 

[astrobuckeye]

Just as an update. I received my resent package and it had a shrimp that was ripped in half. So I'm kind of skeptical as to what is going on ORA at this point.