Coral carry-on WWC

[Mick]

I was in Orlando this week and discovered my office was right near WWC so of course I had to go. Knowing I’d be back I wanted to see how tough it might be to fly home with corals in my carryon. They assured me no problem.

Skeptical I bought a bunch of not great under their lights looking 2 for $5 frags and a carry case for the purpose plus two large $10 birds nest corals. Only one of them fit in the case and the other needed to be bagged. Good test scenarios.

They gave me extra bags in case that needed to be opened.

Well TSA knew exactly what they were handling and didn’t need to open the case and the bag, visual inspection and on my way.

Now I’m home the corals are clearly not of the $20 variety but … they are worth every penny of $2.50 and easily three times as much. I would have paid $7.50 for each of them and thought that was a steel!! They’re great under my lights - I’m excited. Apparently these frags are simply the off-cuts and shaded pieces.

So I’m looking forward to returning with my new TSA accepted carry case. Thought I’d share my experience of any of you get down there and maybe we can work a club group buy at some future point.

 

[CherylG]

Can you post a photo of this tsa accepted case?

 

[Mick]

Container, comes with a holder for 8 frags and - the frags you see here were $2.50 each!!!

Orlando airport was also just as happy with a plastic bag. This bad boy was bagged:

 

[mumra]

Wow, and that was definitely over the liquid Oz limit as well? When I bought a few things on my last trip we shipped it because they didn't think the TSA would let me carry it on. Glad to see that they let you. I'll be doing this myself next time.

 

[Mick]

I checked and it has to be 800ml’s which is 27 oz. Keep in mind that I was carrying a plastic bag with a birds nest coral that would have been of similar size and they were ok with that too. The carry case is great piece of mind though. Here’s a side view.



I’m at Myrtle Beach for the next week and I always like to bring something back. Happily I found this carry case at Marshall’s for a handful of dollars with compartments no less. We’ll get some hermits, small black muss to try in the sump and maybe a few other things. Last year I had at least 100 tiny hermit crabs on some seaweed so it will be fun to see what this year brings. Maybe a bit big for a plane but a car ride should be great!

 

[childers]

I'd be interested in some corals. If they aren't to expensive I'd be open to a group purchase.

 

[LPTJ]

Interesting. Never would have thought TSA would be cool with that. Now i know. Thanks for sharing.