I always put them in the cooler as the car gets stopped along the way home somehow always and that way I do not have to worry. I do not drive and do not always have control of whether we go directly home. So that is why I just started taking them in the coolers or putting heat packs in during the winter if that is the case. It works either way.

I have used the styrofoam coolers that the fish I receive in the mail arrive in but for those who do not get them that way, the 6 pack coolers are about the same size. The salespeople in the stores sometimes balk at putting them in there but I insist and in they go.

It is a treat for me to be able to go to the stores so when I do I really make a trip of it. But lately I will have to say that I am still not impressed with the quality of fish I have found there in the larger pet stores. The ones I get through the mail are still so much nicer but the shipping costs are so wildly high that it is very hard to order fish and it takes a lot of thought before making an order.

Rose