Species Spotlight: Celestial Pearl Danio (Care + Breeding Guide)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:25 My experience with keeping CPDs
1:39 Care guide
4:13 How to breed CPDs
7:40 My method of hatching the eggs and raising the fry
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In the netherlands these fish go for about € 3,00 Usually 5 for € 15,00. I have them in a 30L heavily panted nano tank and they are breeding and fry is growing up. I don't feed any special foods, just fine flakes and that works well.
Much the same here - I have them in a 30 litre Biorb no heater just a temperate set up and feed them flakes and they are breeding away happily 👍😀
WOW!! Where i live, in the States, CPDs tend to go for around $6-8. Everything seems to be so expensive in Australia!
Not in my area, about 12 a piece here
Prices change over here( same city as nick) , I’ve sold them for $4ea / $10ea / $12ea and $20ea in the last twenty years it all depends on how many people are breeding them and demand as they can’t be imported.
From Florida, rhey are about 3-4 dollars here
you guys realize that one aud is like 60cents in eur or 0,70 usd? so the price is not that different, when "it seems to be so expensive in australia"
@@erghhi i actually did not know that!! Very interesting, the value of a dollar lol
I'm building a 75 gallon nano fish aquarium right now. These dudes are going in, so thanks for the info! Wish me luck!
HOW DID IT GO
@@tinaaa7259maybe still cycling since the person said they are only building the tank
Great information Nick. Doing all the B-roll is terrific 👍. Your care & breeding videos are really interesting!
I've recently fallen in love with these guys so this is exactly what I was looking for!! Just care, if I had a few babies that would be awesome, but I just want my fish to be healthy and live their happiest life! Thanks for the awesome and super informative content!!🙏✌️
Just asked the lfs about stocking these guys an hour ago, small world lol great videos every time keep it up man
Cool video on one of my favourite species.Thanks. You are the wrong way round though about their classification. They used to be considered as Rasbora but have since been reclassified as a Danionins, hence "Danio Margaritatus". Can't believe how pricey they are over there. They cost £3.50 to £4.50 over here in the UK.
still pricey in uk, tho. in malaysia, we can get at least 4 of these with £4.5
Been trying to breed these guys for a few weeks the big difference was your 2.5 hours after light to remove eggs. On first day of doing this I collected 15 fertile eggs. Love your vids Nick and thanks all you do not just for the Australian community but for the hobby at large.
I have 8 CPDs and I LOVE them. Thanks for the Video.
Extremely helpful video as always. 👍
superb video 👍👍 best one yet i have seen on Galaxy Rasboras
Your video is maybe the better I've seen about CPD (and they are quite a lot out there!)
I rescued a single male from a local Petco. He was the only one left in the tank, he looked healthy, and I worried that he'd probably get sick and die if left there. They haven't gotten any more healthy CPDs in since unfortunately, but he's absolutely thriving in the heavily planted 29g.
If you bought it from a chain and weren’t given it, not a rescue. Petco got more the next shipment 🤷♂️
PetSmart has them now! 3.99
Love this little fish. Mine keep dying so hopefully I can take some of your tips and keep mine alive.
Always helpful thank you
Very cool! Thanks Nick!
I’ve got about a dozen in a heavily planted tank and never saw them as they seemed to be so shy. I added a female betta and they are happily all over the tank now. They even feed with her. She’s been in with them for about 4 months now and it’s become my favourite tank.
Thanks for posting .I am setting up a 20 meeting gallon and want to combine a group of cpd with a female betta. Depended on the betta personality of course.
@@susanthompson1506 I hope you have as much success as I did. I posted this about 6 months ago all is still well with my CPDs and female betta. It’s also full of cherry shrimp and I still love it.
I actually got the same, group of Amano shrimps, cpds and a female betta in a super planted tank and they are all super friendly to each other, love them
@@jenjen3245 What is the tank volume please?
@@Poovendhan143 30 litres
These are such a pretty little fish that I've wanted for a while now. I honestly don't know why I haven't gotten them yet.
I loved this video! I think those fish are so beautiful. Do not have any in my fishroom and I don't know why.
Did ya get some??! GET SOME
Fave fish channel you da best
Great info!! I always wanted these danios and the store always sold out instantly on these. Got 10 the other day and love them so much. Now trying to breed them, lets see how well it goes :)
Will try to get some javamoos as recommended, currently using guppy grass and i dont see them going into it. I used 2 containers from tropica invitro plants and shouldnt be too high for them either.
awesome video
They are awesome little fish
Hi Nick, great video😁👍
At what temprature should I keep the eggs? And how long do they take to hatch
What convenient timing I just separated my zebra danios for breeding 💜💜
Thankyou for a very informative video nick!. I have a group of 6 and they absolutely beautiful!. I'm so happy to have finally been able to get some for my aquarium. Here in the UK they are around £36.00 for a group of 6. Thanks for sharing a absolutely amazing video 😊
I paid like 70€ for 10, they pricey but so beautiful 😀
Okay in INDIA it's 3.3$ a pair and it's still expensive for me
I did thank you very much 😊
Hi 👋I love your channel so much and I have some glowlight and silver tip tetras and I was wondering if you could do a video of how to easily one breed of those species😁😊😲😁
Nice video
Great Video! Freshwater fish here in Singapore are extremely cheap because of heavy amounts of breeding by hobbyists and farms. I can find some of these CPDs in my lfs at $2/piece, no joke
I have been breeding CPD's in Canada for a few years and do it almost exactly the same way you do. However I add a piece of plastic canvas to the bottom of the spawning container suspended on a few marbles. The eggs drop right through and I don't get any predation.
we have a group of 11 or 12 in the tank and now that theyre grown up, i think we managed to have only TWO females. i didnt think the odds were going to be that bad!
Really good content, and good advice as always.
With your breeding Tubs, when do you start removing the methylene blue? You started feeding infusoria but the water had changed.
Each bucket is one day so day 3 he removed it
Day 1-3 is methylene blue and each day adding the eggs, but then need time to hatch and become free-swimming in the tub before moving them to a 2ft tank.
So still unsure, my thought is to do small water changes to dilute out the methylene blue.
Why does he actually add the blue? What is it good for?
I've got 6 in a nano tank with Chili Rasboras. They are so beautiful. I've got Java moss and know they like it, but have yet to see any drop eggs. I think mine cost about $5 or $6 a piece
Just curious, what's the size of your tank? I want to get some for my new 10 gallon along with some pygmy corys, but want to make sure not to overcrowd it.
@@Roberto577_One they're actually in a 5 gallon with lots is plants & 3 Habrosus Corydoras. 10 gallons sounds like a good size for what ya got. I had them in a 10 gallon and they always stayed in one spot anyway lol
@@CazzyCat Awesome, thanks for the info!
Man in our area it's just $3.3 pair
And for me Its still fucking expensive....
Should I buy them or not healthy fish but not fully coloured up.
Please reply before it gets out of stock.....
@@omkaringalgi sounds like they are young. you can always buy them and hope they breed. mine did and I didn't do anything special
You must have a very good strain over there. I've had nothing but heartbreak with CPDs... 😥
Same. Love them but they keep deading
Can you do a full guide on axelrodi rasboras(blue neon rasboras)
I'm looking at these for my 17 gallon paludarium, unfamiliar w/ their bio load, I'm wondering how many I can put in my tank.
what is that glass tube called that you use to suction up the eggs?
How many containers and aquariums do you use for your setup? Thanks
You mention feeding baby brine shrimp to fry quite often. I know you mentioned not having an issue with the shells, but was curious how the saltwater of the brine shrimp interacts with the fry. I didn't see you wash them, or remember you saying anything about the salt content. Would you say something in regards to the salt content of the water in relationship to the fry?
Query, why not use crushed egg yolk for the initial fry feed? I have seen a fair number of breeders recommend this for small mouth or tiny fry.
I left my fry in a 5 gal fluval spec and feed first bites and and later baby brine and i had 60+ fry
Also I had 1 male to 9 female
I heard they fan be with shrimp and i hear shrimp will clean eggs so they sound like a great combo i wanna try it with my cherry shrimp can i????
I had one in a community tank that I couldn’t take out. There was a pea puffer that it would bully and chase lol..I thought it would be the other way around 😂
I kept a group as a dither fish with a small betta sorority- they're so fast and gorgeous and fun to watch! Got the first three accidentally when my local fish store scooped them up with some floating plants, and I loved them immediately. I might take them out and try breeding them to up the school size in a safe environment :)
I just paid $3.45 for each today. Beautiful little fish.
can i put this type of danios with two little angel fish in a 29gallon?
Can they be kept and bred in a tank with a ph of 6.5?
I live in a small town in Colorado and they were $8 a piece at the pet store
Hi thank for the great video, I got myself 6 CPD's and want to breed them. I have been feeding them baby brine and the males are starting to show breeding behaviour. I setup a moss trap but haven't seen any eggs currently... Any ideas why?
could be a few reasons. 1) you are taking too long to harvest the eggs and they are getting eaten. 2) they are in a planted tank and there lots of other places to spawn instead of the moss trap? 3) they may be too young still. I also have found that natural morning light triggers their spawning. When I get eggs it's in the morning. If there aren't any there before say 11am, i won't get them that day. They are typically daily spawners though. Some groups seem to do better than others...haven't worked out why
Can i use magna daphnia babies instead of bbs?
Nice video. I have some experience with Danio's as well. I disagree on the minimum number of 6. They are definitely not happy in such a small group. I think you should keep them in groups of at least 15. With these numbers they are a lot more happy. Low numbers don't do the fish any good.
Would you be able to only feed baby Brian shrimp and nothing else or should you bury their diet?
dDo you have harlequin rasboras?
Are you still selling bettas in your website
This is the only video I've watched that outlines feeding frequency. I read somewhere that they should be fed 2-3 times a day which seems like a lot/ a mistake in the article. Mine are doing okay so far with krill flakes
Do your danios come to the top to feed? Mine always stay on the bottom.
@@didnthurt4077
They are mostly opportunistic middle feeders. They are a carnivorous specie so they prefer food that is moving (it triggers their hunting instinct).
If the food is floating or goes to the bottom they are way less likely to go for it.
These fish are very carefull, if they fear to go in some areas of your aquarium it's because they dont feel safe.
It's counter intuitive for us humans to think that more hyding places = brave fish, but it's true.
@@mr.octopus6972 thanks for the Info! Yea i added some dither fish the same size and they startet to occupy the open waters and even feeding from the surface.
@@didnthurt4077
I noticed that they became a lot less wild in the company of other species... weird
💙💙
Also if you have too many males then they get distracted sparring with each other for the females and won't mate as often. Great video
Yea, gotta try to get more females.. but the store always sold out 😞
Wow, we're spoiled in the USA, I can get 8 small/young ones for $28.50 + $13 shipping, full DOA coverage.
yeah these guys get stuck easily.
my female one that lays egg every other month always gets stuck in a rock pile i made for my kuhli loaches while trying to get pellets that drops in the rock pile.
Are there any reports about these fish jumping out of open tanks?
Please Do a Video On Black Skirt Tetra😎
It’s actually crazy Australia & New Zealand currently have 323 Kmarts. I think here in the USA the last time I seen one was like 2008. There gone 😂. My question is do they still have the blue light sales over there. 👉🇦🇺
Man blue light sales were the best. U took me back wit that one
I guess i get lucky. i started with a pair and have 5 now. 1 baby somehow survives every other month.
I got several eggs, but I can't see the freshly hatched fry. How small are they at this stage? I'm wondering on how to spot them and what to use to do so? Update: I saw my first single fry the other morning and it is small.
How you prepare water for cpd hatching?
Try to have *at least* 50% water from the main tank into your breeding tank. Do water changes as needed also with the water from the main tank.
Many people are telling that they lost many fries by adding new uncycled water.
Then you top off the missing water in the main tank with tap.
That's what I've read...
Do they start swiming araund container before you start feeding them? Mine are 6 days old and still not swimming, just laying on botom( they are still alive, when I blow them with pipette they will move couple cm)
Lol. Yes, dude. They're fish. They should be swimming...sounds like your fish are dying or something
@@shrimpandsilver5010 oh suppose I didnt realize thay are fish....Mine are not swimming thats the problem and after week they are dying..does somebody have similar expirience ?
Same price any where in Michigan 15-20$ but still my fav fish!! Broke my bank as a youngin🤘but all worth it
Also more of the celestial‘s the better and less aggressive they get so make sure you have the bank to get enough….lol so they can group and not get territorial. I also don’t breed so i don’t know they numbers for that but that’s why I’m here
But just a little info from my experience
More the merrier for less chasing.
in the uk they cost about 5 pounds ,beautiful little fish
They cost £4 here in the UK
They aren’t a micro rasbora, the scientific name is danio margaritatus. They were scientifically classified incorrectly when originally discovered, same with the dwarf emerald “rasbora” or danio erythromicron.
Exactly they were called galaxy rasboras when they were first talked about. NOW they are called danios
Called Galaxy Rasboras or celestial Pearl danios in the USA.
Can't get them in New Zealand and it kills me!!
Pauls Aquariums!!
Currently $25 AUD a piece in Victoria, Australia
they've come down a lot though. Most places in my area (south east) are under $20. I know of one place selling for $30 each though. Where are you?
Good gawd man! That's expensive.
Even now with 18% inflation and super high prices they are only like $7-$12 a piece.
Normally like $5-$10
$7.49 CAD in Edmonton.
3.50 for danios at my local fish store 😳
Why do my danios hide when the light comes on
I have a group of 8 in a heavily planted 20g with other small community fish. I wasn't able to sex them at the store but for the first few weeks I figured out I had about 4 males, 4 females. Now a few months later, I am pretty sure that number is 5 males 3 females. It is definitely male heavy in the tank, and I doubt that is ideal since the males are absolutely bonkers, always showing off and sparring with each other. In my experience in a planted tank with a small group and other fish out and about they aren't shy at all. With the sex ratio I have they are far from that, and are the busiest and most active fish in the tank.
Are they truly compatible with shrimp? Cheers
Yes and no. They will not bother adult shrimp. But they will eat baby shrimp. I have a planted tank (5 blue dream shrimp and 6 cpd’s) and my shrimp colony grew.
I’d say, yes. I have at least 11 cpd’s and about 9 chili rasbora’s (hard to count at times for they hide and are fast) with my colony of Neocaridina shrimp. I have adult, adolescent, babies, and berried shrimp in my tank. I feel like my shrimp could care less when they see my shrimp. I’ve seen shrimp probably as young as a week old.
Hey mate, I think you got the name backwards. They were originally named Galaxy Rasbora but we’re later reclassified as a Danio.
I can get them 4$ each in southern Ontario
Where!? I gotta find this place your speaking of.
lol we get them for 1.50 to 2 dollars in CA
In my country they are now bred in thousands by many breeders and prices dropped. Personally as a breeder I decided not to breed them anymore.
$6 each last week in Anaheim, CA next to Disneyland :)
I got them for 3 dollars each at petsmart!
Great video as always! Keep it up, Nick! Also the other day I came up with a video idea, and I was wondering if you would like to have a small clip of you featured in my video. The video is about the worst mistakes fish CZcamsrs have made. All I would need would be a c]videoof you telling the story of your worst fishkeeping mistake. You can say no and I really don't care I just love your channel and I've been watching and regularly commenting on your videos (Under the name of peachy 313) If you would like to participate or want to say yes or no please reply to this comment and send me an email using the email in my about section on my channel! Keep it up, Nick!
Dam they only cost abt $1.5USD in Singapore
I had a colony of 13 of these at one point. Then the males got very, very aggressive. Slowly their numbers began to dwindle. Now have one giant male and two small females. A shame, because I really do love these fish.
Sounds like your tank is way too small.
i got mine from a pet store in germany for 6 € ~
I sell these at my shop in Los Angeles for $5.99
Wow that’s expensive. I got mine for 5$ Canadian at a local fish store.
What!!! In Italy they cost 5€ each in Rome that is the most expensive city in Italy
what the heck. why these small fishes are so expensive in us, uk and other european countries. with 15 aus dollar, we in Malaysia can get at least 7galaxy rasboras. so lucky to live in asia.
Just got 6 of them for £26
10x30 per each=$300. Would want to be a spectacular fish. So many beautiful fish for half that price. Not all fish are ment for everyone and that's ok.
You incorrectly call these fish Microrasboras. They are Danios. Danio margaritatus.
WAS originally classified as Danio. now classified as Rasbora species
@@takdeideanakletaknamaapa
I think it's the opposite...
Other way round@@takdeideanakletaknamaapa
I thought these where galaxy rasboras
Seem them for £9 each, very expensive considering how tiny they are
Damn. That was expensive. Now you can get them 7 bucks each