the fish lives
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Nichinan, Miyazaki, 2010.12.22
So it's not so easy to ship fish via courier after all.
Only one of our three loaches survived the trip, and the one rummy-nosed tetra also perished. But along with the pleco (I've never lost one of these fish, are they indestructable?) one of the loaches did indeed pull through. As did all six of the shrimp!