Shipping a Permasoaked Stone

[Heckel7302]

I've been thinking about unloading a couple stones, but they are permasoaked. What would you do in this situation? Dry them carefully then offer for sale? Or keep them soaked and ship wet, like wrapped in a wet towel then sealed in a bag (thinking vacuum sealer bags, minus the vacuum part)? They are for sure fully saturated, been in the tank for over a year.

 

[knifeq2121]

dry slowly over a week maybe. ship when dry. if I have a particularly thirsty stone I like to wrap it in damp towel to dry more slowly to help prevent cracks. dry out of sunlight, etc.

 

[gentiscid]

If they still feel wet, wrap in multiple layers of paper towel, then bubble wrap and ship.

 

[Choppin]

I'd let them fully dry before shipping. Reduces total weight and chances of leakage...

 

[blokey]

Towels and paper towels, lots of them.

 

[ian]

Put stone in plastic tub, fill with water, tightly seal, pack in cardboard box with bubble wrap.

Not sure there’s any other way to ship a permasoaked stone!

Or do what @Choppin said.

 

[enrico]

I don't have much to add, but can you vacuum seal it with water inside the bag?

 

[timebard]

 

[Hassanbensober]

Just be careful where you ship it. If you’re shipping it somewhere up north this time of year chances are the stone could get very cold in transit. If it’s full of water it could be bad.

I recently received a box of jnats from FedEx and they were cold as ice. Just a consideration is all.

 

[Heckel7302]

Just be careful where you ship it. If you’re shipping it somewhere up north this time of year chances are the stone could get very cold in transit. If it’s full of water it could be bad.

I recently received a box of jnats from FedEx and they were cold as ice. Just a consideration is all.

For sure. I've got a box of jnats with a friend right now and we delayed the return shipping by a week because of the storm coming through. It's going to be in negative degree territory and I don't want a couple thousand in rocks sitting out in that.

 

[mushroom]

Ask someone who trades living fish, e.g. Koi. They also need to be kept wet without freezing. As far as I know several layers of plastic wrappings do the trick.

 

[mushroom]

 

[Wolffire99]

You might need Transparent aluminum

 

[daveb]

Bunch of unemployed comedians here - and that's my job....

Let em dry a few days.

 

[The_Real_Self]

Just be careful where you ship it. If you’re shipping it somewhere up north this time of year chances are the stone could get very cold in transit. If it’s full of water it could be bad.

I recently received a box of jnats from FedEx and they were cold as ice. Just a consideration is all.

As someone who carried packages and delivered as a driver for FedEx at this same time of year in Michigan, expect things to freeze in transit... period. If there's any water in that stone it's likely to end badly. The packages are NOT kept in conditioned spaces virtually AT ALL! The warehouses are not often conditioned, the semi-trucks carrying the packages in trailers, delivery trucks... none of these are likely conditioned.