I posted on another thread that I had ordered a Tahitian Yellow Hawkfish from DD. It shipped last Thursday for Friday AM delivery. When it didn’t show up we went to the local FedEx facility where it had last arrived and offered to pick it up.
Bad news was they had lost the box! In their own facilityIt was scanned in but never scanned out.
LA was also in touch with FedEx but no luck finding the box.
I didn’t hear anything over the weekend. Or on Monday. So I called LA to file a claim believing all was lost. And it was very upsetting that a live fish would be lost in FedEx’s own local transit station!
Well today FedEx showed up with the box. 5 days later. I didn’t even want to look but one of my employees said “I think it moved!”
We cut open the bag and floated in a QT. The hawk was upside down and just moving with the flow of the water. He looked dead and the water was cold.
I reached in and sure enough felt him barely move in my hand. So we started warming him up and acclamation him and put him in the QT.
A few hours later he found his way under a rock and looks like he is going to pull through. Tough little guy!
Was nice to have a good ending (hopefully) to a tragic shipping story. And I wondered how long fish can stay alive when lost in shipping. I really didn’t think he would survive 5 days!
Wonder how many similar stories out there.
Bad news was they had lost the box! In their own facilityIt was scanned in but never scanned out.
LA was also in touch with FedEx but no luck finding the box.
I didn’t hear anything over the weekend. Or on Monday. So I called LA to file a claim believing all was lost. And it was very upsetting that a live fish would be lost in FedEx’s own local transit station!
Well today FedEx showed up with the box. 5 days later. I didn’t even want to look but one of my employees said “I think it moved!”
We cut open the bag and floated in a QT. The hawk was upside down and just moving with the flow of the water. He looked dead and the water was cold.
I reached in and sure enough felt him barely move in my hand. So we started warming him up and acclamation him and put him in the QT.
A few hours later he found his way under a rock and looks like he is going to pull through. Tough little guy!
Was nice to have a good ending (hopefully) to a tragic shipping story. And I wondered how long fish can stay alive when lost in shipping. I really didn’t think he would survive 5 days!
Wonder how many similar stories out there.