How to Breed & Sex - Celestial Pearl Danios in a 10-20 gallon, Nano Aquarium. For Beginers or Pros!
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Here is a link to a video all about caring for celestial pearl danios below...
• Celestial Pearl Danios...
In this video I will be discussing how to tell the gender of celestial Pearl danios. Commonly referred to as "sexing" your fish , and in this case your CPDs . Also I will be going into quite a bit of detail of the different methods that you can use to spawn baby fry from your adult Celestial Pearl Danios. Be Sure to view my other videos on them for water conditions, habitat and the importance of live micro worms, baby brine shrimp, daphnia or seed shrimp for raising the fry.
I will point out subtle differences between wild stock caught in Myanmar AKA Burma and purchasing line bred fish which may have more vivid colors and variations in patterns, color, finage and body style.
The bulk of the video is discussing thr different types of Fry pens or cages you can use to breed egg scattering nano fish. Along with this, I'll discuss some of the common problems that may occur when raising fry, such as predation by snails (almost all snails may eat eggs if hungry), shrimp (neocaridina or caridina) as well as the parents or other fish in the tank. Even nano, or micro fish love to chow down on these tiny little baby fish and or eggs.
I'll also go over the most common methods of encouraging tetra, rasbora, danio or white cloud minnows to lay ans fertalize theor eggs quickly.
We cover questions like what is a breeding mop? How do you tell males and females apart, how do you spawn egg scattering fish, and of course, how do I get my celestial pearl danios to mate (and get the offspring to survive).
Other info includes vegetation, and Fry traps also known as egg catchers or GATHERED, the type you can purchase as big box stores such as petco or petsmart, as well as some DIY ways to breed C.P.D. Thanks for watching, enjoy!
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Yes your videos are very informative. I like the way you placed your rocks in this aquarium. Nice setup.
Thank you, and thanks for watching
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You could attach the fine acrylic mesh to the sides of the fry box to prevent babies escaping and leave the original separating grate on the bottom to allow the eggs to fall freely.
Great idea
Very informative video as always. I really like what you do on your channel. Another way to tell the males from females is that the males will have a orange stripe that runs down their spine. Keep doing what you do if it works for you.
Rock on, thanks
Once again, awesome and informative video. Keep it up!
Gladly. It's nice to hear you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!
Wow that is a amazing aquarium I love it thanks for sharing my friend enjoy watching here new friend pls stay safe and connected 😊 ☺ 💖 😀
Thanks! And welcome to the community here! I appreciate your kind words. Have a great week Helen!
Hello Alexander! Nice to see you again! i have bene very interested in CPD's. thank you for this video.
Oh sure! Best of luck on breeding them...they are a great starter species for nano fish breeding...nano fish get difficult very quickly hehe
Do they ever stick the eggs to the side of the glass?
Im trying to breed cpd's and chili and realised red light helps. I'm still not sure but makes them dance
It simulated sunset WHEN insects are out :)
so I have an extra 10g, my plan was to breed blue neocardina in there, sand from my AC tank and some java moss with water lettuce on top. couple rocks for caves nothing fancy. Was thinking of putting some CPD in there to breed as well. IK they could eat some shrimp eggs but not worried, pretty much just want to build an easy breeder tank. Some mystery snails will probably sneak in lol. So was thinking of putting 1m 2f CPD in the tank for a couple days then remove them. wait a few days to look for fry. and then repeating once I move the fry out or if breeding failed. Does this sound about right? would you do it differently? Leeme know, thanks cheers.
Where'd you get that screen?
I'm thinking of adding CPD to my 15 gallon planted tank that only has shrimp in it so far. Do you think a school of about 12 would be more outgoing in a species only set up like this? I'm a bit apprehensive as i've read they're v shy and may spend all their time hiding so i'll barely ever see them exploring the tank.
it depends a bit on the layout, but i would assume 12 would be fine and theyd have more courage. If you want to order them with a discount aquaticarts.com has them usually and you can get 15% off with mentioning the channel and code SECRETSHRIMP15
12 is still few enough thay you csn have some corydora habrosus (5 or 6 easily), which are a fun little tiny cute addition that kinda encourages less fear, as they swim all over.
other tips - water temp around 74 instead of 76 or 78 males cpds a bit more lively and they really like places to hide if need be...so id plant some thin grass or rotala type plants on the back 2 corners or sides....and or something where they feel hidden, but youll still see them through it.
lastly using small dither fish can help... tinwini / gold ring danios, or green/ blue axelrodi rasboras are one of my favorites since they live together naturally. A little larger but still natives are orange rummy nose rasboras which get a bit larger at 1.5 inches though (also a lake Inle species and cool looking).
lastly clown killies are top dwellers, small and beautiful and make the cpds feel safe like no birds are above. They stay tiny too.
Lastly, i would make sure to feed them in the morning lights on or before lights out...but make them come feed from a ledge, plant or stone in an open area so they learn to patrol their full space for blood worms or treats they like
I have frys in my planted tank, do they ate them even after hatching or can I keep them together with the parents?
They definitely eat their babies unless you have a ton of moss and hiding places within thick vegetation
What other tank mates are ok to keep with spawning cpd?
I put nothing in with them.... only an otocinctlus or a few shrimp. I even like to remove the parents If none are born within a month.... youd be surprised how many eggs are being laid by all your fish daily. If you grabbed all the adult fish, and snails out of a heavily planted community tank, and just let it sit for a month after.... and feed baby brine shrimp as soon as you see the first couple fry, you'll likely get 50% of your species having laid eggs that just usually get eaten daily
this is one species i wanna get in my tanks and breed
I highly recommend it!
@@Fishtory dont tempt me hahaha
So meta looking at mine in the breeder box and the screen at the same time, wish me luck
Hahah you crack me up. I'm wishing you luck
Do you have any luck breeding them in that container? Ignore the hate those peaple are just annoying
Yeah. Not tons but 5 to 12 babies at a time :)
Does breeding box work for them to breed in? Heard it was only possible in a tank or tupperware like danios are bred in labs. I would like to breed some but I don’t want to establish a new tank just for that.
So as long as there is a place for the eggs to fall to the bottom or into a tangle of plants, before getting picked at and eaten by the cpds... you can breed them in it. Marbles all across the bottom works well too, or a screen/mesh layer about an jnch above the bottom... both work well. Then after they lay eggs, simply return the adults to the main tank and raise the fry in the pen until 1/3rd to 1/2 an inch long
@@Fishtory thought about having a box with yeah, marbles or even a pierced layer for eggs to fall. Just need to have a vented box with very small vent so that eggs and fry can’t fall or escape. I have some CPDs but with my new larger tank, I also wanted Kubotai that are danionins too so, they should be good in it too
cool tyvm subbed
Welcome to the community my friend! Have a look around at the 500+ videos in the archive and please feel free to ask any questions on your mind.
Take care -Alex
@@Fishtory thank you for the welcoming, I have a lot of videos to watch lol
I asked my fish a lot of eggs, but the hatching rate is less than 5%, why is that, how to incubate the eggs? thank
If they are over 3 years old, they may just be too old. They don't live more than 4 or 5 years at the very max.
Hi..Do I need soft water to breed Celestial Pearl Danios?
My cpd breeder has a his pH at 8.3 and 76 degrees and they are breeding consistently. They are forgiving fish. Is this ideal? I'd shoot more for 7-7.5, but they can thrive and reproduce in hard water
@@tylerlazerte4987Thanks. I am gonna need some fans then.I am from Sri Lanka. It's like 80 degrees here.
Do you switch the females every day/every other day or do you keep the same breeding group in the box for the time being?
I keep them on a live food diet and they'll keep dropping 3 to 10 eggs a day when in spawning condition...for up to 2 weeks ...the main issue is often they eat the eggs too.., so if you add a screen at the bottom for the eggs to fall through, then you can hatch a lot more.
@@Fishtory i keep 2 males and 4 females in a hang on breederbox with some javamoos. This box has the screen already, now just waiting for them to spawn. I ordered another box to rotate them so i can clean the box after a few days. I noticed having the screen when i feed them, a lot of food also falls through the screen and lays on the bottom where they cant reach it. Maybe i'll add more javamoos so it doesnt drop that fast. Is your feeding shedule the same when they are in the breeding box like 2 times a day small amounts of food?
How would I know that my Galaxy Rasbora or CPD is berried?? Is there any indication? Please help me cuz I got 8 of them in a planted tank with Cherry Barbs and some guppies
A fat belly...and if you shine a strong LED like your phone's flashlight, it sometimes will let you see through their belly and see the outline or eggs in there. Do it when its pitch dark, so you can sneak up on the tank, and they are in their night time sleeping coloration pattern that is more translucent
@@Fishtory should I take out all my female CPD that are fat? Cuz I can see 4 of them that has dark outlines in their belly right now or just leave them? Or I'll take out all my guppies and cherry barbs?
@@rleyquinn6252 unless your tank is planted extremely well, like solid 3 inch carpets of moss and then layers of plants...youll want to grab the 4 females ideally...separate them and fatten them up on brine shrimp....then re introduce 2 males to the females after a week of feeding both groups nice live food ideally....or at least frozen things like daphnia or blood worms.
Then make sure only the one species is in the planted tank...and drop off the males at night...so they will spawn first thing in the morning....leave the light off and just let ambient light in the room be enough...and keep feeding the group good quality food...then after 3 to 5 days remove all the fish....and just have what looks like an empty tank.... after 3 or 4 weeks if you look closely you should probably have 10 to 100 baby fry swimming....if you leave adults with them- then you may only get one or two fry that live.... cherry barbs are especially nippy...and female guppies as well.
I know that method takes some time and also looks a bit boring...but it's amazing when fish appear seemingly out of nowhere in a nicely planted tank
@@Fishtory Will surely do. Yeah it is quite a long process but I know it is satisfying to see the results! Thank you so much!
@@rleyquinn6252 have fun and let me know how it goes! ....pandemic lockdown project i suppose
did this actually work? did you get eggs? i checked your videos and i dont see any about the eggs?
I've had a few here and there. stray babies, but currently I'm working on getting more to survive by creating a much denser carpet for them
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium yea I'm busy trying to see what will be the best way to breed them... did they lay eggs the following day?
best way for numbers is how lrb aquatics does it. Search for his CPD video
What I found works for me I sink that box at the bottom of the tank then put the lid half way and let a ball of plant float in it they go nuts all I do is remove the box and I’ve managed to get as much as 37 eggs in one day from only 3 females
Then I collect them and put them in an egg tumbler so no fungus gets the eggs I might lose one egg at a time not really much
Then after the second day when you see them developed put them in a bucket with an established sponge filter and stuff
That's a great tip! Thanks for the info, I really appreciate you running in and contributing to the community knowledge base!
So are the adults coming and going from the submerged box of plants? And then you just bring it back out of that tank, and put the eggs aside? (picking through the plants)
Or are do you put the adult fish in the little box with plants so they stay there? (Like do they just come and go, and since it's the only plant material- they spawn on it?
Crap I watched this to see when to start feeding. Mine are in a breading box, just hatched. They look fully formed but are all clinging to the wall of the breading box
They eat the yolk sacs they have on them for a few days, but then need infusoria or an aquarium older than a year or two with microscopic little critters for the first week to 3 weeks....then they can eat vinegar eels white worms, baby Brine Shrimp or Golden pearls food.
@@Fishtory cheers mate. Love your vids and your approach btw
I so want to breed these. I have 5 beautiful males😀. Need to find some females. Thanks for this video!
the colors on yours are kinda dissapointing mine are so bright and pretty or is it just the stress from the breeding box
Yes...when they're in their black water or heavily planted tanks, they color right back up
Those look like culls js.
@@mr.t-bagyou3529 they do on video, but they colored up beautifully now
Can you see that dot as fry? I have a few young fish, only one does not have the anal dot and it's definitely a male due to colour, but he's one of the larger ones.
Yeah they have a few easy ways to sex them. There's a black bar (usually 2 black stripes by adulthood, on male anal fins.) Also their chest or belly is usually silver and not fully blue on females, along with them being rounder in shape also. Usually the males look skinny and get a bit of a humpback as they become adults .... males supposedly are blue and females more emeralds color....but really it seems to mean males are more colorful than the larger females. Then there is the gravid spot, just like guppies have....although a male about to *cough* relieve himself- can trick you once in a while.
For the algorithm!!
In fact, you try to reproduce Danios and give advice!?
looks like galaxy rasbora
That was the original name by the pet trade, given in 2007 (it was first found in 2006) and by 2009 they realized it is the smallest true danio species and not at all related to rasboras, so thus the rename in most of the world. However locally some pet stores and so forth still market them with this name. Thanks for watching
@@Fishtory how to determine if male or female?
@@sarutouzamaki260 he goes over that I'm detail in the video
Indonesia subtitle please 🙏
I very much like your videos. However I have a small complaint about this video, Alex. I don't like that female fish, I would cull her. I sure wouldn't breed her. I just don't like her at all.
Hah alright...if it makes you feel better she died a year ago?
Very loquacious, chatty, gabby, lengthy, boring and drowsy talk. May water save you.
Why thank you...i hope it cures your insomnia my friend!
RR26 I like the casual conversational style of these videos...it’s relaxing and the topic is always fun because it’s about cute little fish. Don’t be do judging. You don’t need to watch this if it bothers you. Peace
@@Fishtory - in parity with the satisfaction and enjoyment I find in my Aquariums, the comprehensive depth and breadth of your videos are a refreshing respite from our frenetic environment of toxic commercial sound bites and foolish tweets.
"In the shallow thoughts of foolish men, little fish ideas splash about in waves of commotion; while in the oceanic minds of deep thinkers, great whales of inspiration make hardly a ripple".
My god i wish you would get to the point. So much pointless drivel. I gave up and looked elsewhere
Hope you found it. This is heavy drivel and unrelated trivia or banter....simply a hobbyist sharing what im up to- not a professional bullet pointed and outlined education module. Sorry to waste your time. Try just googling things in a visual 1-10 step turorial
@@Fishtory - your narrative style is a very enjoyabe accompaniment to your action packed, information packed videos. PLEASE continue providing us with such interesting content and sophisticated, informative narration!
Thank you for all that you do.
I bet you can't breed them like this. Find other videos.
Get to the point already ! How do you breed.
If 20 minutes of related info is too much to pay attention to and feels too long...you have a lot of learning in patience to breed nano fish
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