I tried these fish multiple times, and I couldn't get them to work for me. I tried Dan's CPDS, and they were great, and I had absolutely no problems. If you are nervous, definitely try Dan's Fish.
I just found your channel and as I new Aquarist and general biology nerd I love the style of these videos and the amount of research and background provided rather than the typical “yeah throw these guys in pH 7-8 @ 76 degrees in a 10 gallon.” Plus you actually get footage of the fish rather than just your face! Lol The added effort is appreciated!
I’ve yet to order from Dans. But his information on fish, especially dithering dinkers like I’m into. It’s invaluable. Literally go to sleep some nights listening to him spew valuable information. 90% doesn’t even apply to my tanks. He’s a valuable resource for anyone wanting to keep fish!!
I ordered a bunch of CPDs from what appeared to be a US breeder, but were, in fact, shipped from Asia and were extremly emaciated and pretty close to a pale white when I received them. Thankfully, by some miracle, 11 out of the 12 I bought recovered nicely and now they seem to be quite happy in my planted tank (and they spend much of their time where I can see them). I wish I found out about you sooner, but if I ever need to order some more CPDs, I will order them from you!
Shy? Lol. My celestial pearls that arrived yesterday are super curious, right at the front of the tank, and quite bold. They've been schooling with the ember tetras, some of the chili rasboras, and are unafraid of the two female bettas. The danios are only just over half and inch, too. When I fed everybody this morning, the danios were active feeders and I know for sure they all ate.
Good vid, I love these little guys. I have about 20+ adults and some 15+ fry, that I know about, might be more. When kept in larger groups (20+,50+ is amazing), they eat food direcly from your hand. They are without any doubt my favourite nano fish.
Love them❤️ I bought 7 last week together with two of the loaches that they live with natively (rosy loach). Not very shy if you train them to associate you with food
Exactly ! If you feed less and more often every fish will become your BFF. I have a bunch of female guppys who come to rub against my fingers like cats do, I kindly call them "my bunch of hoes". If I wanted or needed to I could catch most of them by hand. Now my platys have gotten into it too. I can see that the other kinds of fish are coming closer and closer to me. I know I shouldn't put my hands in the aquarium but it is so cute I can't restrain myself 🤦
I have these in my nano tank. They share space with cherries and other than the fact that all my shrimplets went into hiding (but they're still there, I can spot them), fishies don't bother shrimp much. They're cute and I enjoy watching their shenanigans
Love these little guys! I have a colony breeding tank with CPD's and snowball shrimp. Just letting nature do what it does, and it's my favorite tank to watch! Edit; I feel bad for ppl who think CPD's are shy. Compared to my chilli Rasbora the CPD's are type A personality party animals! 🤣 Edit#2; these species spotlights are great vids and I hope the friendly fishmonger crew keeps them coming! 🙏✌️
I LOVE CPDs! I currently breed these little ones, they have become my favorite fish over the years, just beating out the green tiger barb. Great video, Dan!
I have a half-dozen of them in a species only nano tank on my desk, and love watching them chase and spar with each other. They are a very active, and not shy in a species only tank.
How big is your nano? I currently have half a dozen Chili Rasboras in a 3 gallon, but I'm not a big fan of their behaviour. Thinking about trading them in for CPDs, but I know the CPDs are a tiny bit bigger than my rasboras, which people and calculators already tell me I'm in the wrong for keeping them in a 3 gallon.
@ I had them in a 5 gallon at the time. Some individuals defend patches of java moss, so 3 gallons might be a bit small for 6 fish. They are hardy little fish. They survived PetSmart’s Canadian supply chain and store, and after 15 months all six are happily living in a larger community tank.
Tips for CPDs: heavily planted tank, linke really heavy. The less open, the better. Low water movement to no water movement (e.g. walstad method). Feed tiny granulate and daphnia/brine shrimp. Shrimp do a great job on producing some live food, they only eat the smallest babys and don't bother bigger shrimps (more than 3mm). Colder temperatures, like 18-24°C. They like a good lighting but with a lot of plants to feel safe. They know me and come to the front of the aquarium when I am feeding 😊 Feed 1-2 times a day, not less. They do great in slightly harder water.
i tried keeping them a few times in the past, but every time they died of dropsy. None of the other fish were affected and the tanks water was well within parametres. i still can't figure out why
just started collecting eggs yesterday! I have a cold tank of 18 with 3 female clown killifish and 1 male clown killi that I have tried so hard to breed but only had 1 successful fry (that later died in a surface skimmer I forgot to turn off and left on for too long rip) - I do have 3 mystery fry that I'm raising up from that cold tank so they're either pygmy corys, CPDs, or clown killis. I'm really hoping they're clowns.
To give you an idea how hardy they are I live in the mountains of western Montana at 4200'. I turned 25 of these guys loose in a 300 gallon stock tank out in my garden in May with nothing but an aerator and pond plants. Pulled them out last weekend for the winter and found 21 of them fat and happy and guessing I lost most the other 4 to a fat and happy dragonfly nymph I also found. They are now in an unheated 65 gal aquarium in my livingroom with paradise fish for the winter.
@@joppek77 3 things that I think make it work: large tank, large group of CPDs so they are out in the open and not being cornered and the opercularis are a group of 2.3 so if they are being grumpy they tend to argue with each other.
Thanks for the info! Yea I figure a fast schooling fish could work as tank mates to M opercularis. The obvious choice would be White Clouds but CPDs would be very attractive! Thinking to keep them in a 50 gal with lots of plants.
@@joppek77 will say I have yet to have them try and breed in this tank and that may up the aggression. Hoping to pull pairs and breed them and groups to breed the CPDs in other tanks this fall
I had 5 of these (now 4 because one is dead of unknown reasons) they live in a comunity tank with guppy, platy, danio emerald, cory and black neon. Shy is not the word I would choose to explain their behavior, cautious would be a better choice of words. At first they where hiding a lot but since they learned (probably from watching the other fish) that the big air breathing giant is dropping food all the time. They became very sociable toward humans and don't fear me no more. If they look uneased maybe you should change the water parameters, they need an acidic environment to start thinking about having babies. A good way to do this is by adding ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and it is also good for their health. Stunning fish to watch from close and seeing them courting and mating is a show😮😮
Just got them. I love how they look like tiny trout. Do you know of any other fish that has solid colored scales and nice colors like this one? White Cloud Mountain Minnows is on my list, but i would love more suggestions. Mine are not shy at all, but they are very vigilant as you have mentioned in the video. I housed them with one of my bettas, and they get right up to each other. I think their confidence comes from that i got a slightly denser population that what is typically recommended online and because i have a lot of plants and hardscape to break up the sight lines. They have available cover pretty much anywhere they can go, and often bicker among each other about the best spots. When they have confidence, they also become very inquisitive and will come right up to the glass to inspect me when i am watching the tank. I can also tend to the tank without worrying about them getting stressed. If anyone who wants to get CPDs are reading this, my tips is this: Drip acclimation for minimum 1 hour. Lots of plants, they will not thrive without them. Floating plant especially, they do not like seeing the light source but do not mind bright light in itself as long as they do not see where its coming from.
Thanks for sharing your experience with these fish. I think White Clouds could work as long as you don't get too many of them...White Clouds are fast eaters and tend to hog the food. I'd also look at Neon Green Kubotai Rasboras and other small, peaceful rasboras as they tend to be less food aggressive.
@@DansFish Thank you for taking time to answer me. I will definitely be mindful of that with white clouds if i end up getting them. i thankfully have space to move fish around if needed :) Do Rasboras nip at fins of other fish? I have a super docile betta that would not defend itself even if it needed to. He is a bit depressed after i had to take his corydoras tankmates out. I raised the fry from eggs in his tank and he never did anything but inspect them once in a while. I am in need of something to keep him company as i cant spend enough time with him to fulfill his social wants/needs, i have other bettas that also needs stimuli.
they are super beautiful..however i never had any success keeping them for more than 5 month..one by one got dropsy all of the sudden. despite the medication and attention i gave them, they didnt survive..i would love to try again but most of my lfs, i suspect they got them from the same supplier as when i go there for supplies, some of their cpds have sunken belly. i suspect it might be because of their genetic
If you haven't tried them from us, we've got some nice ones you can find here: dansfish.com/product.detail/1914/Celestial-Pearl-Danio---CPD-(Celestichthys-margaritatus)
My shrimp breeder sent me home with a school of these guys and I love them! I have 12 and I'd love to get more in the future :) What would you recommend as dither fish to help the CPDs feel safe? They're with plants and blue velvets right now.
Anything small, peaceful, and bold, but not too food aggressive would work well. Pygmy Hatchetfish, Pencilfish, Pygmy Corys, Kubotai Rasboras, Chili Rasboras, or more CPDs should do the trick.
Do they come from dans fish as adults or fry? Thats the one issue ive had with other sellers. I dont wanna risk shipping fry or just barely passed fry age fish. Thats just me
I’m curious if they would be suitable for a UNS 60s? Footprint is bigger, but it’s only 7 inches of height. 23 x 14 x 7 10 gallon shallow. My first shallow and struggling on what fish to get. Also thought about Scarlet Badis. Thoughts Dan?
For most fish, height is much less important than floor space...they swim side-to-side much more often than up-and-down. I think that tank footprint would be great for CPDs and Scarlet Badis. Tough choice...they are bot such beautiful fish! The advantage to CPDs is they will eat prepared foods much more readily than Scarlet Badis, which prefer frozen and live foods.
@@DansFishI’m actually going to go a different route than the Badis. I have a Fluval 307 on this tank so significantly over filtered haha. Do you think 6 CPD, 6 Chili Rasboras and 6 Pygmy cats would be appropriate?
When I was 12 I found a fish that looked just like this fucker and the difference was they were blue and yellow they were crazy cool I’ve never found anything like em since
Not true w the zebra danio. My 5 CPDs love their 10 zebra danio friends and all swim in the front all the time. Before I got the zebras, I never saw the CPD.
I see them on suppliers lists weekly. However, only a few suppliers do a good job transporting them, so your local shop might have given up on getting healthy stock.
Whatever you do with cpd sch don't put them in with a sch of green kubotai rasbora. I had 17 cpd with 10 green kubotai. The green kubotai harassed them so much my cpd weren't getting any food in my heavily planted 4ft low boy. The remaining 4 cpd now live with 11 other new cpd in a heavily planted 10 gallon with no issues
I tried these fish multiple times, and I couldn't get them to work for me. I tried Dan's CPDS, and they were great, and I had absolutely no problems. If you are nervous, definitely try Dan's Fish.
Absolutely one of my favorites! Love these micro trout!
I first saw these in 2008 while in college and have been breeding them ever since. First egg scattering fish I ever bred, favorite fish by far.
Once again hit the thumbs up guy’s enjoyed the lesson. Keep it up Dan
I just found your channel and as I new Aquarist and general biology nerd I love the style of these videos and the amount of research and background provided rather than the typical “yeah throw these guys in pH 7-8 @ 76 degrees in a 10 gallon.” Plus you actually get footage of the fish rather than just your face! Lol The added effort is appreciated!
Great fish talk! Love this fish and keep them with my rummy nose rasboras, beautiful!
I’ve yet to order from Dans. But his information on fish, especially dithering dinkers like I’m into.
It’s invaluable. Literally go to sleep some nights listening to him spew valuable information. 90% doesn’t even apply to my tanks.
He’s a valuable resource for anyone wanting to keep fish!!
As a professor, I have a knack for putting people to sleep when I speak :)
I ordered a bunch of CPDs from what appeared to be a US breeder, but were, in fact, shipped from Asia and were extremly emaciated and pretty close to a pale white when I received them. Thankfully, by some miracle, 11 out of the 12 I bought recovered nicely and now they seem to be quite happy in my planted tank (and they spend much of their time where I can see them). I wish I found out about you sooner, but if I ever need to order some more CPDs, I will order them from you!
Very helpful info 👍! I really like your rating system, too. 😀 As usual, great job, "friendly fish monger!" You deserve faaaaar more subscribers!!!
my group are doing great. I love this little fish.
Shy? Lol. My celestial pearls that arrived yesterday are super curious, right at the front of the tank, and quite bold. They've been schooling with the ember tetras, some of the chili rasboras, and are unafraid of the two female bettas. The danios are only just over half and inch, too. When I fed everybody this morning, the danios were active feeders and I know for sure they all ate.
How are they doing with the bettas?
Good vid, I love these little guys. I have about 20+ adults and some 15+ fry, that I know about, might be more. When kept in larger groups (20+,50+ is amazing), they eat food direcly from your hand. They are without any doubt my favourite nano fish.
When this fish came to market the celestial pearl danios, i thought wow this fish is out of this world…. Pardon the pun😂
Love them❤️ I bought 7 last week together with two of the loaches that they live with natively (rosy loach). Not very shy if you train them to associate you with food
Food...the basis of any relationship :)
@@DansFish indeed 🤤
Exactly !
If you feed less and more often every fish will become your BFF.
I have a bunch of female guppys who come to rub against my fingers like cats do, I kindly call them "my bunch of hoes". If I wanted or needed to I could catch most of them by hand. Now my platys have gotten into it too. I can see that the other kinds of fish are coming closer and closer to me.
I know I shouldn't put my hands in the aquarium but it is so cute I can't restrain myself 🤦
definitely going to be order some, went to 6 LFS’s and couldn’t find them. I love these so much, they look like tiny trout, great video!
Love these fish! Great video. ❤
I love these types of videos, kind of like Clint's Reptiles but for fish.
Really love these profiles! Great job Dan!
These are my favorite looking schooling fish, I really wanna try and get a school of them someday.
I have these in my nano tank. They share space with cherries and other than the fact that all my shrimplets went into hiding (but they're still there, I can spot them), fishies don't bother shrimp much. They're cute and I enjoy watching their shenanigans
Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
Love these little guys! I have a colony breeding tank with CPD's and snowball shrimp. Just letting nature do what it does, and it's my favorite tank to watch!
Edit; I feel bad for ppl who think CPD's are shy. Compared to my chilli Rasbora the CPD's are type A personality party animals! 🤣
Edit#2; these species spotlights are great vids and I hope the friendly fishmonger crew keeps them coming! 🙏✌️
I LOVE CPDs! I currently breed these little ones, they have become my favorite fish over the years, just beating out the green tiger barb. Great video, Dan!
Great information! Love dans enthusiasm and knowledge
I have a half-dozen of them in a species only nano tank on my desk, and love watching them chase and spar with each other. They are a very active, and not shy in a species only tank.
How big is your nano? I currently have half a dozen Chili Rasboras in a 3 gallon, but I'm not a big fan of their behaviour. Thinking about trading them in for CPDs, but I know the CPDs are a tiny bit bigger than my rasboras, which people and calculators already tell me I'm in the wrong for keeping them in a 3 gallon.
@ I had them in a 5 gallon at the time. Some individuals defend patches of java moss, so 3 gallons might be a bit small for 6 fish. They are hardy little fish. They survived PetSmart’s Canadian supply chain and store, and after 15 months all six are happily living in a larger community tank.
Tips for CPDs: heavily planted tank, linke really heavy. The less open, the better. Low water movement to no water movement (e.g. walstad method). Feed tiny granulate and daphnia/brine shrimp. Shrimp do a great job on producing some live food, they only eat the smallest babys and don't bother bigger shrimps (more than 3mm). Colder temperatures, like 18-24°C. They like a good lighting but with a lot of plants to feel safe. They know me and come to the front of the aquarium when I am feeding 😊 Feed 1-2 times a day, not less. They do great in slightly harder water.
Good tips, thanks for sharing.
I am a saltwater reefer and I would love to have a tank full of these. They are beautiful 😍.
Your the best, love your very informative videos.
Great video bro 👊🏽👍thanks 🙏🏾❤️🤗
blast me with more of your first hand fish knowledge, dan🐟 great videos, for real
That's a great video. Thanks a lot.
Ive had CPD's for about a year and absolutely love them.
Can I put these with bettas ?
i tried keeping them a few times in the past, but every time they died of dropsy. None of the other fish were affected and the tanks water was well within parametres. i still can't figure out why
just started collecting eggs yesterday! I have a cold tank of 18 with 3 female clown killifish and 1 male clown killi that I have tried so hard to breed but only had 1 successful fry (that later died in a surface skimmer I forgot to turn off and left on for too long rip) - I do have 3 mystery fry that I'm raising up from that cold tank so they're either pygmy corys, CPDs, or clown killis. I'm really hoping they're clowns.
Woot! Another vid 👍🏽
To give you an idea how hardy they are I live in the mountains of western Montana at 4200'. I turned 25 of these guys loose in a 300 gallon stock tank out in my garden in May with nothing but an aerator and pond plants. Pulled them out last weekend for the winter and found 21 of them fat and happy and guessing I lost most the other 4 to a fat and happy dragonfly nymph I also found. They are now in an unheated 65 gal aquarium in my livingroom with paradise fish for the winter.
That's very interesting! Do you think they make good tank mates to Paradise fish? Paradise fish can be a bit aggressive, or so I've heard...
@joppek77 so far no problem. CPDs are small, fast and never stop moving. The opercularis don't pay them much attention.
@@joppek77 3 things that I think make it work: large tank, large group of CPDs so they are out in the open and not being cornered and the opercularis are a group of 2.3 so if they are being grumpy they tend to argue with each other.
Thanks for the info! Yea I figure a fast schooling fish could work as tank mates to M opercularis. The obvious choice would be White Clouds but CPDs would be very attractive! Thinking to keep them in a 50 gal with lots of plants.
@@joppek77 will say I have yet to have them try and breed in this tank and that may up the aggression. Hoping to pull pairs and breed them and groups to breed the CPDs in other tanks this fall
I had 5 of these (now 4 because one is dead of unknown reasons) they live in a comunity tank with guppy, platy, danio emerald, cory and black neon.
Shy is not the word I would choose to explain their behavior, cautious would be a better choice of words.
At first they where hiding a lot but since they learned (probably from watching the other fish) that the big air breathing giant is dropping food all the time.
They became very sociable toward humans and don't fear me no more. If they look uneased maybe you should change the water parameters, they need an acidic environment to start thinking about having babies.
A good way to do this is by adding ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and it is also good for their health.
Stunning fish to watch from close and seeing them courting and mating is a show😮😮
Sure, cautious is a fine word to describe their behavior.
I am really enjoying my standard white pearl Danios. Zippy little fish😄Sometimes, in the morning, they look purple and pink❤️They ARE a bit shy.
I just got two tiny platys with pinched bellies. The poor things , I should’ve gotten more. The two I got seem to be experiencing separation anxiety.
Just got them. I love how they look like tiny trout.
Do you know of any other fish that has solid colored scales and nice colors like this one?
White Cloud Mountain Minnows is on my list, but i would love more suggestions.
Mine are not shy at all, but they are very vigilant as you have mentioned in the video. I housed them with one of my bettas, and they get right up to each other. I think their confidence comes from that i got a slightly denser population that what is typically recommended online and because i have a lot of plants and hardscape to break up the sight lines. They have available cover pretty much anywhere they can go, and often bicker among each other about the best spots. When they have confidence, they also become very inquisitive and will come right up to the glass to inspect me when i am watching the tank. I can also tend to the tank without worrying about them getting stressed.
If anyone who wants to get CPDs are reading this, my tips is this:
Drip acclimation for minimum 1 hour.
Lots of plants, they will not thrive without them. Floating plant especially, they do not like seeing the light source but do not mind bright light in itself as long as they do not see where its coming from.
Thanks for sharing your experience with these fish. I think White Clouds could work as long as you don't get too many of them...White Clouds are fast eaters and tend to hog the food. I'd also look at Neon Green Kubotai Rasboras and other small, peaceful rasboras as they tend to be less food aggressive.
@@DansFish Thank you for taking time to answer me. I will definitely be mindful of that with white clouds if i end up getting them. i thankfully have space to move fish around if needed :)
Do Rasboras nip at fins of other fish?
I have a super docile betta that would not defend itself even if it needed to. He is a bit depressed after i had to take his corydoras tankmates out. I raised the fry from eggs in his tank and he never did anything but inspect them once in a while. I am in need of something to keep him company as i cant spend enough time with him to fulfill his social wants/needs, i have other bettas that also needs stimuli.
I remember when these fish came on the scene!
Love your videos Dan!
The only reason they didn't seem to work for me was in the summer my aquariums reached 85 degrees and they don't like the heat
they are super beautiful..however i never had any success keeping them for more than 5 month..one by one got dropsy all of the sudden. despite the medication and attention i gave them, they didnt survive..i would love to try again but most of my lfs, i suspect they got them from the same supplier as when i go there for supplies, some of their cpds have sunken belly. i suspect it might be because of their genetic
If you haven't tried them from us, we've got some nice ones you can find here: dansfish.com/product.detail/1914/Celestial-Pearl-Danio---CPD-(Celestichthys-margaritatus)
@@DansFish thanks for the offer..but i live in other parts of the world
My shrimp breeder sent me home with a school of these guys and I love them! I have 12 and I'd love to get more in the future :) What would you recommend as dither fish to help the CPDs feel safe? They're with plants and blue velvets right now.
Anything small, peaceful, and bold, but not too food aggressive would work well. Pygmy Hatchetfish, Pencilfish, Pygmy Corys, Kubotai Rasboras, Chili Rasboras, or more CPDs should do the trick.
Do they come from dans fish as adults or fry? Thats the one issue ive had with other sellers.
I dont wanna risk shipping fry or just barely passed fry age fish. Thats just me
Will CPDs out compete badis?
I’m curious if they would be suitable for a UNS 60s? Footprint is bigger, but it’s only 7 inches of height. 23 x 14 x 7 10 gallon shallow.
My first shallow and struggling on what fish to get. Also thought about Scarlet Badis. Thoughts Dan?
For most fish, height is much less important than floor space...they swim side-to-side much more often than up-and-down. I think that tank footprint would be great for CPDs and Scarlet Badis. Tough choice...they are bot such beautiful fish! The advantage to CPDs is they will eat prepared foods much more readily than Scarlet Badis, which prefer frozen and live foods.
@@DansFishI’m actually going to go a different route than the Badis.
I have a Fluval 307 on this tank so significantly over filtered haha. Do you think 6 CPD, 6 Chili Rasboras and 6 Pygmy cats would be appropriate?
Have 7 of these guys in my 20 gal with a betta and 13 Dwarf corys
It states they are out of stock on your website.
Add them to your wishlist and you'll get an email as soon as they're back in stock. We have some in quarantine that will be ready to go soon.
So the country origin?
is this the same as galaxy rasbora
Yes.
I got 5 from a display tank in a store and now I have hundreds of them.
Yea try finding them locally in bflo
These fish retail for $30+ each in my LFS in Melbourne, Australia. Silly pricing.
Took 12 in a 10 gallon to get them to not hide. They are with male betta and Amano shrimp.
My CPD’s are not shy at all 😂, they are the craziest ones I got
How many of them you put?
Hmmmmm maybe I'll try a slow eater's tank.
Yes...a tank for grazing fish!
@@DansFish Otos and Corys and... in a moderately planted 55.
I really want like 9 of these and a betta...is that a bad idea?
When I was 12 I found a fish that looked just like this fucker and the difference was they were blue and yellow they were crazy cool I’ve never found anything like em since
Not true w the zebra danio. My 5 CPDs love their 10 zebra danio friends and all swim in the front all the time. Before I got the zebras, I never saw the CPD.
Superb
Right fish for me!
If they are so easy to breed, why is it very rare to see them in fish stores? I've only seen them twice in a span of several years.
I see them on suppliers lists weekly. However, only a few suppliers do a good job transporting them, so your local shop might have given up on getting healthy stock.
Whatever you do with cpd sch don't put them in with a sch of green kubotai rasbora. I had 17 cpd with 10 green kubotai. The green kubotai harassed them so much my cpd weren't getting any food in my heavily planted 4ft low boy. The remaining 4 cpd now live with 11 other new cpd in a heavily planted 10 gallon with no issues
💯 ⭐️
I want some
A large group of dwarf corydoras act as the dither fish and bring my CPD's out.
Sounds perfect!
Иммунитет и устойчивость к заболеваниям 1/5. Рыбка очень восприимчива к разным инфекциям. Или мне так не повезло и я купила рыб с плохим иммунитетом.
Finding healthy ones can be difficult.
If you want to see them, just reduce light
I really like these guys. They are cool and cute.
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