03-10-2011, 09:39 PM
Caveat: Shipping is NOT easy. Shipping tadpoles / larvae is doubly hard. I would not reccommend shipping until you have read and learned quite a bit about the subject.
I will not get into the actual shipping procedure / companies ect. This is only a construction thread.
On the uncommon event that I ship tadpoles....this is what I use. It can also be used to ship some frogs like pumilio. You can drill a tiny hole in the center of the film can lid for frogs, obviously NOT for tadpoles.
1. Start with film canisters. They are still VERY much available and FREE in all parts of the USA. Walmart and some big box stores have changed slightly and some places have gone completely digital, put that just means you have to look harder. The Camera stores are still out there. Trust me. If THAT fails, there's' always eBay. Black film cans are harder to obtain because they are usually the Kodak film brand and that's the more expensive brand of film. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I labeled them. I label everything. Some of my frogs have white sticker labels on them as well. It's probably just OCD......probably.....[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
2. Then go to home depot or Lowes ect and get a big sheet of white Light Diffuser or otherwise called "egg crate". It's found in the lighting section. Ask a stockperson.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
3. Buy a good pair of craft type wire cutters. Small size with rubber grips found in craft stores like Ben Franklins, Michaels or even tool sections of other stores. This tool is simply the BEST and EASIEST for clipping the plastic egg crate in all sorts of shapes. Forget saws, forget knives, forget all the other tools. The little clipper pliers are the best. Trust me. They even snip a nice little straight line thru the plastic.So easy.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
Snip out as many squares as you need, film canisters. You may have a tiny bit of rough edge that may score the sides of the film cans as they are being pushed into the crate but that's either no big deal or you can take a little metal craft file and de-burr the plastic. Easy as well.
4. Here they are seated nicely in their little tray. The tray will keep them nice and upright for their little journey through the mail or shipping company.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
5. Here's another cool item to be found at Lowes. An .89 cent TOTALLY clear as glass plastic box with snap on lid made by some European company . It's called a KIS container and it makes a great shipping container as well as plant grow out, frog transport, tad raising, Isopod culturing....ect ect....It's just that awesome.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
Oh....it too has more labels. These labels are computer generated with my patented "Philsuma" icon on them.....I told you it was a sickness.
6. Here's the finished box with the three film cans firmly nestled inside, ready for their journey.
7. Here's the lid. Now this little box is considered an INSERT and still needs to be placed inside another box or styrofoam shipping container depending upon the destination and time of year / weather ect. That too, will be covered in a different thread.
ENJOY and happy shipping.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
I will not get into the actual shipping procedure / companies ect. This is only a construction thread.
On the uncommon event that I ship tadpoles....this is what I use. It can also be used to ship some frogs like pumilio. You can drill a tiny hole in the center of the film can lid for frogs, obviously NOT for tadpoles.
1. Start with film canisters. They are still VERY much available and FREE in all parts of the USA. Walmart and some big box stores have changed slightly and some places have gone completely digital, put that just means you have to look harder. The Camera stores are still out there. Trust me. If THAT fails, there's' always eBay. Black film cans are harder to obtain because they are usually the Kodak film brand and that's the more expensive brand of film. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I labeled them. I label everything. Some of my frogs have white sticker labels on them as well. It's probably just OCD......probably.....[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
2. Then go to home depot or Lowes ect and get a big sheet of white Light Diffuser or otherwise called "egg crate". It's found in the lighting section. Ask a stockperson.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
3. Buy a good pair of craft type wire cutters. Small size with rubber grips found in craft stores like Ben Franklins, Michaels or even tool sections of other stores. This tool is simply the BEST and EASIEST for clipping the plastic egg crate in all sorts of shapes. Forget saws, forget knives, forget all the other tools. The little clipper pliers are the best. Trust me. They even snip a nice little straight line thru the plastic.So easy.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
Snip out as many squares as you need, film canisters. You may have a tiny bit of rough edge that may score the sides of the film cans as they are being pushed into the crate but that's either no big deal or you can take a little metal craft file and de-burr the plastic. Easy as well.
4. Here they are seated nicely in their little tray. The tray will keep them nice and upright for their little journey through the mail or shipping company.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
5. Here's another cool item to be found at Lowes. An .89 cent TOTALLY clear as glass plastic box with snap on lid made by some European company . It's called a KIS container and it makes a great shipping container as well as plant grow out, frog transport, tad raising, Isopod culturing....ect ect....It's just that awesome.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
Oh....it too has more labels. These labels are computer generated with my patented "Philsuma" icon on them.....I told you it was a sickness.
6. Here's the finished box with the three film cans firmly nestled inside, ready for their journey.
7. Here's the lid. Now this little box is considered an INSERT and still needs to be placed inside another box or styrofoam shipping container depending upon the destination and time of year / weather ect. That too, will be covered in a different thread.
ENJOY and happy shipping.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
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