Good news is I have more fish and we can reship...bad news is they died first time around and we have to go thru it again.:(
Like Hans...I have a pretty good track record with fedex... Priority over night to someones house has never been an issue before for me...until now.
I thought about this all last night and I think if these were larger fish and the boxes had more bags and water in them...less air volume the may have still been okay at 5 pm.. Thats only about 24 hours and they should have more than enough oxygen......heat packs may have failed ....I used 3.. and the box was well insulated..but may have been on the back of the truck..in an unheated area.....who knows..
We'll try again Scott.. and hopefully they'll get it right with transport.
Its sad...but when shipping fish by any means...things happen..
These fish didn't die for nothing though.....it really does show many out there that haven't shipped fish yet or ordered fish yet what can happen when you do.
take care,
al