How to take Corals on a USA Domestic Flight

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How to take Corals on a USA Domestic Flight​

REMY
2 DAYS AGO

If you’re like me, then you try to be as streamlined as possible when flying. The idea of flying to an aquarium conference, buying coral, and transporting it back home seems a bit intense. Why complicate an already arduous process?

There are times when I’d visit a shop like Top Shelf Aquatics and just have them ship me the coral I had purchased, but when you go to a show, you’ll likely purchase from multiple vendors. With Reefstock Chattanooga on the horizon, I figured I should share my experience getting coral frags through a TSA Security Checkpoint.

Our journey begins in Winter Park, Florida at Top Shelf Aquatics. They offered to ship six Acropora frags to the Reef Builders studio, and I declined. I wanted to overcome my irrational fear of flying with coral.

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