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After much ado, I received a Blue Tegu hatchling from our friend DaveDragon here on TeguTalk.com
We worked out a trade, my rock iguana hatchling for one of his blues right before he sold out! He shipped me his hatchling first from Conneticut to Ogden, Utah.(about 2200 miles +- if you drove it!) He decided to ship USPS seeing how Bobby has had 0 problems with them, which I whole heartedly agreed to. He packaged it up in a huge box with double insulation to endure the weather. Two inches of rigid insulation, styrofoam peanuts and a large deli cup along with two 60 hour heat packs taped to the lid would be the housing for little blue's adventure! :shock:
The delivery was to be a 24 hour trip but something went wrong. Either the transport got delayed or they mis-calulated a one day trip for two is still uncertain. After shipping from his local Post Office, the box went to 2 Conneticut cities, last seen in Hartford. Eleven AM the next day came and went.(delivery by 12pm is the norm for such but I always get them by or before 11am.) I called my local post office and they told me what I already knew, it wasn't here! The tracking site went down temporarily and all we could find out was that it was last seen in Hartford. Calls made to no avail from either end was quite frustrating and worrisome. After much lost sleep I went to work(graves) on 4 hours sleep. Once I got my crew running, I logged in on my company PC to find the site was up again and had been updated! The box had made it to SLC airport at 7:30pm, some 7.5 hours late but it's in Utah, YAY! After all the worry this was definitely a good sign!
I got off this morning and made sure the temporary enclosure was set up and warm. I laid down on the couch by the front door to watch for delivery as usual and got an hour or so sleep when the phone rang. It was the Post Office returning my call from the previous day telling me the package had arrived at my main local office. They also apologized, promptly telling me the postage was completely refundable as it was late. I told them to bring it to me and went back to my cat nap. At 10:02am this morning this is what I awoke to:
THAT'S MY SIZE 13 BOOT NEXT TO THE BOX!
And after the 47 hours of being in a box, driving and presumably flying across the country during winter temperatures of 5 to 45 degrees for over 2200 miles this was the body temp of my new lil guy right out of the box!
We worked out a trade, my rock iguana hatchling for one of his blues right before he sold out! He shipped me his hatchling first from Conneticut to Ogden, Utah.(about 2200 miles +- if you drove it!) He decided to ship USPS seeing how Bobby has had 0 problems with them, which I whole heartedly agreed to. He packaged it up in a huge box with double insulation to endure the weather. Two inches of rigid insulation, styrofoam peanuts and a large deli cup along with two 60 hour heat packs taped to the lid would be the housing for little blue's adventure! :shock:
The delivery was to be a 24 hour trip but something went wrong. Either the transport got delayed or they mis-calulated a one day trip for two is still uncertain. After shipping from his local Post Office, the box went to 2 Conneticut cities, last seen in Hartford. Eleven AM the next day came and went.(delivery by 12pm is the norm for such but I always get them by or before 11am.) I called my local post office and they told me what I already knew, it wasn't here! The tracking site went down temporarily and all we could find out was that it was last seen in Hartford. Calls made to no avail from either end was quite frustrating and worrisome. After much lost sleep I went to work(graves) on 4 hours sleep. Once I got my crew running, I logged in on my company PC to find the site was up again and had been updated! The box had made it to SLC airport at 7:30pm, some 7.5 hours late but it's in Utah, YAY! After all the worry this was definitely a good sign!
I got off this morning and made sure the temporary enclosure was set up and warm. I laid down on the couch by the front door to watch for delivery as usual and got an hour or so sleep when the phone rang. It was the Post Office returning my call from the previous day telling me the package had arrived at my main local office. They also apologized, promptly telling me the postage was completely refundable as it was late. I told them to bring it to me and went back to my cat nap. At 10:02am this morning this is what I awoke to:
THAT'S MY SIZE 13 BOOT NEXT TO THE BOX!
And after the 47 hours of being in a box, driving and presumably flying across the country during winter temperatures of 5 to 45 degrees for over 2200 miles this was the body temp of my new lil guy right out of the box!
