Would you guys feel confident shipping in high temps?

[patedship]

Well it is pretty warm here and I am supposed to ship out a few packages I really do not want to ship when it is this hot. Should everything be fine or am I just being paranoid? Ambient room temp is around 87.

 

[Randy]

I would ship overnight in that temp.you can get some cold packs and wrap them in paper.I say about 90 is the point where you really need to add the cold packs and hold the package at the delivery office.

 

[patedship]

If I dont have a cold pack would you still ship?

 

[Randy]

Yes
I have had my tank at 87 with no losses due to a broke heater.What is the temp where it is going?

 

[patedship]

I am not sure.

 

[patedship]

I was able to talk to everyone except for one person, everyone said that they would like to hold off on shipping as well. I gave the one person an hour to contact me before I do not ship does that sound fair?

 

[Randy]

I would check in to that!

 

[illcssd]

I have this same dillema, i am supposed to ship today and it is about 85 degrees here. I am worried.

 

[patedship]

Yeah I would really prefer not to ship in this weather. The temp will drop in a few days but I understand that people want the frags that they paid for.

 

[illcssd]

Our weather is supposed to cool down to, by tommorow or the next day, and i am shipping sps which i really don't want to get fried.

 

[patedship]

I am in the exact same boat

 

[fishes2889]

I was shipped a couple items, a couple of days ago, last wednesday, from down in the keys. They had 90 degree weather and he still shipped. No cold pack at all and it cam here fine. The temps last week were really high but everything made it all right.

 

[patedship]

What were you shipped?

 

[Azurel]

One thing you have to remember is the most of the travel time will be at night and here in Michigan it is getting down to 40's at night. I sure in other areas in the south it is a bit hotter at night but I wouldn't worry about shipping right now, myself anyway. If you think about it that is only 7 degree difference between your tank and the air temp......Once pulled out of the tank I'm sure the water has an initial drop in temp and then begins to rise again......

 

[fishes2889]

What were you shipped?

zoa's, rics, and some inverts....

 

[patedship]

All those are typically more hardy than sps.

 

[fishes2889]

oh didnt know you were shipping sps....sorry

 

[patedship]

Its cool man, the temps dropped a lot so I ended up shipping a package out. His local temps at the time were in the lower 70's.

 

[fishes2889]

good. keep us posted with how the shippment went...

 

[Randy]

This is how I look at it if my temps are high and where I am shipping is in the 70's I will take it late in the afternoon.It will go straight to the airport in the afternoons cooler temps and most of the time be delivered by 10 or 12 the next day.