Just keep them cool in a chilly bin, and they will be fine. Just have a towel/cloth between the crays and whatever you use to keep em cold. They send them airfreight overseas like that.

Tinky wrote: Just keep them cool in a chilly bin, and they will be fine. Just have a towel/cloth between the crays and whatever you use to keep em cold. They send them airfreight overseas like that.

Good advice.

Standard Deluxe wrote: You'll also have to lock the fridge to stop the missus eating it while your out.  Best buy two and keep the spare in your beer fridge.

The wife doesn't eat seafood, so alright there!

Have heard that providing the freezer temp is not too low they

Have heard that adding some seaweed with them in the fridge helps keep them alive longer. Not sure why but is something I heard from a local Maori

Seems to be backed up by this blog

"You can keep lobsters alive for a day or so in the refrigerator. We store them in a paper bag, covered with seaweed. They can also be stored alive in an open container, covered with seaweed, or a seawater-soaked towel or newspaper (can you take a bottle or towel to the grocery store and ask the person at the fish counter to give you some seawater? ). Don't store them in a closed container. And whatever you do, don't put them in fresh water — they'll expire very quickly.

If the lobsters are quite lively when you buy them, you should be able to keep them alive in the refrigerator for as long as 48 hours. If their claws hang limply and their tails do not curl under when you pick them up, they may not have the stamina to survive nearly as long"

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I kept a few in my chilly bin overnight, one of the buggers started to eat a Butterfish, another got into a pack of prawns I had for bait. Greedy little buggers they are. 

Also heard them waking about inside the bin throughout the night. 

we get them sent to us in a polly box with ice pacs and straw....them seem to last ages dont know why the straw tho

best way is to keep em in karps cage fighting arena...