Dead or alive

[changilass]

As I am supposed to be picking up our beardies on saturday I ordered some crickets and calci worms online.

I got an email on the 15th saying they had been shipped. They havn't arrived yet and the snow gates on the road are currently closed, meaning no vehicles can get through. I am hopeing they will reopen in the next few hours (currently 4.53 am here).

So my question is, bearing in mind we are at -4c just now, are they all likely to be DOA?

If not how much longer are they likely to survive?

Thanks in advance
Sue

 

[Beardednoob]

Depends on if the mail facility left them outside which they shouldn't ("live" "perishable") they usually say on the box not to leave the parcel too. If they took it back to the local facility you may be looking at a few DOA's but, not the entire contents. If they left them outside or in a mail/drop box then likely they have suffered a lot of losses.

 

[changilass]

Cheers for the reply, will let you know the results when they arrive.

Having said that if the snow gates remain closed I may have to try to keep them alive for a while afore I actually get the beardies here to eat them, now thats a whole other problem.

Message to self: go read feeders forum more thouroughly.

 

[Livey]

where have you ordered some from?
Mine came yesterday with special delivery ,
and there all alive
x

 

[changilass]

Ricks, but the snow gates were closed till lunch time today so they still not arrived.

 

[Livey]

Oh dear Lets hope they just go to a post office and you can pick them up!
did you get special delivery on just normal?

 

[changilass]

I got special, as I was hoping they would get up afore the weather hit us.

Pick up of the dragons have been delayed as the driver cannot get up to Inverness from soiuth and we cannot get down.

I had arranged to meet in Inverness cos the drive up here from there is not the best in decent weather conditions, never mind in this stuff. The whole county was at a standstill till lunch time, now some of the roads are passable with care, but still being advised by police to stay home.

....and its still snowing, if the wind gets up again and drifts it, everything will shut again.

 

[Livey]

Oh dear, im sorry about the terrible weather,
If its special the post office will try the hardest to get it for you,
Are you near a post office? you could ring them? and ask them to keep it warm for you i guess?
Im not really sure what else you can do x

 

[changilass]

Managed to pick them up from the sorting office today, now I just need to keep them alive till at least the 7th January.

I have small crickets and small pheonix worms.

Any advice would be great.

Beeg thanks to Livey for all the help and advice already given.

 

[Beardednoob]

You can feed crickets any vegetable matter, if you don't and they get hungry enough they will turn cannibalistic.