Need someone to help me ship my snakes from North Florida

[Squishy Burrito]

ok im sorry about the long time it took me to reply but im going to school and working so i dont get a whole lot of time to relax lately. First thing i want to say is im moving from florida to Portland. Ok so this is how its going to work i already have a place in portland where i live for school my girl friend is taking care of the snakes while i get started in school and she finishes her crap in florida. I have alread y moved my snakes from wisconsin to florida and i am aware of how you transport in a car. What i wanted to do is have her take the snakes to a breeder or someone in florida who can send them to me in portland. I kinda dont want them to be bouncing around in the car for 3 days or however long it takes her to get hear. I have the week off from school so i will be checking back frequently to see whats up
thanks for all the posts they are greatly appreciated

[Squishy Burrito]

wow i just looked back and saw that i requested some tips for transporting them by driving sorry about that i did take them across country before but i did the whole strech in 22 hours in the fall so the weather was with me rather then against me Tips for long transports would be key i guess
again thanks to all

[halfwaynowhere]

maybe you can find someone on the portland end of things to help you out instead... You could pack them up yourself, and ship them to the person in portland before you leave. Then when you get to portland, you could arrange to pick them up from that person. That way you can have the assurance that they were packed properly, and everything. And then you'd be able to take their enclosures with you, and get them all set up at your new place.

[Squishy Burrito]

I was kinda under the impression that i needed to be approved to ship animals witch is why i was kinda looking for someone to help me out on that end of things but if thats not true then someone needs to let me know and then maybe help me figure out proper containers to pack them into. i have thought alot of this through so dont worry about the stupid mistakes that some people might make but help me out with the details if you know what i meen

[kc261]

I was kinda under the impression that i needed to be approved to ship animals

Until very recently that was true. Now there is a thing called repster which I know very little about but if you did a search on it I'm sure you could find out plenty. Basically somehow you work with repster to be able to send snakes through fedex without any other approval.

Nate gave you a link to it in the first post in this thread.

If you want ship them overnight, try Reptster.

[simplechamp]

I am moving from Florida back to Michigan in a week and will be bringing my 40G planted terrarium with pygmy chameleons and my 15G half tank with my BP.

I didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal? I just figured if I controlled the climate and kept stresses to a minimum things would be fine. I would think a car trip is better than shipping because at least you can check on the animals and make adjustments if anything needs to be changed. I make the trip from FL to MI in just over 26 hours so that's not any more than overnight shipping would be.

I will be using a DC inverter to have standard 120v AC plugs to use the heat pad if needed and A/C in the car to cool down if needed. I will check on the critters every few hours and hope for the best. I will put the BP in a small rubbermaid just big enough for her hide.

Any other suggestions?