hand warmers for shipping?

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martialtheory

my hands are never dry
Oct 14, 2007
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Lately I heard that some people are shipping out plants with hand warmers for heat packs. Something about being in a box makes it last longer since it doesn't get alot of heat flow.

does anyone have success with this for fishes?
 
i wouldnt risk it. hand warmers wont keep the water warm enough for long enough during this time of year. they only last a few hours and after that the temp. will drop to low.

it may help keep the water warm on the way home from a pet shop though if the store is an hour or so away.
 
person i was ordering plants from was about to use glove warmers which last 8hrs. if the shipping is 24-48hrs and the temperature out is freezing by the time the package gets to your house you will finally get to use that defrost feature on your microwave..

The seller said that the temperature where she is sending it from is 70-80degrees so adding a larger heat pack will just boil the plants during the shipment.. not sure how she came up with that the plants will be boiled by the 24+hr heatpack and not the glove warmers i dont know..
 
I've never tried it, but the hand warmers that I've used get really warm and stay that way. You're talking about the ones that are just a pouch that produces an exothermic chemical reaction right? I would think that it would eventually overheat the fish since they don't turn off and they don't keep a specific temperature.
 
Darwins_Dog said:
I've never tried it, but the hand warmers that I've used get really warm and stay that way. You're talking about the ones that are just a pouch that produces an exothermic chemical reaction right? I would think that it would eventually overheat the fish since they don't turn off and they don't keep a specific temperature.
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all heat packs work on the exothermic reaction. and one of the key things is that when packaging you dont put the heat pack next to the plant/fish/invert.
 
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