Breed 1,000s of Celestial Pearl Danios with this DIY Egg Trap 

G'Day Legends, Wish you all the best of luck with breeding CPDs and hope this video helps. Buy one of your own kit here is the link; www.etsy.com/au/shop/BlakesAquaticsStore Appreciate the support.

I just began to breed my CPD last week after I found a live baby in a water change. I didn't know they where breeding that easy. Already I have ~20 babies 🤩 over about 10 days in the experiment. The only thing I don't like about an automatic egg collector is that it doesn't make the difference between eggs, food and 💩 . That small bin at the top becomes disgusting in a matther of hours. I prefer to take a little bit of time each day to get the trap out and sort the eggs out with a small pipette. I glued a plastic stick to it in order to keep my hands dry the whole process. I only need half a drop of 1% metylene blue to make the hatch rate go near 100% These fish breed like crazy. Very fun to watch.

The Great video I am from Bintan Island Indonesia❤

Good to know, great info mate :)

so simple but such a good idea im so going to do this.

Great Video Thanks for the quality info

I completely understand. No hard feelings. I would like to own one eventually.

Great video, I've made my own, but with a stainless kitchen funnel, cake with a stainless strainer big enough to let eggs through. I'm very excited to try this with my white cloud minnows

Nice one Blake, I have thought about getting some over the past year or so, but having a little one (Mr 3) has taken up so much of my time I figured it was a bit much to attempt, seeing this though, maybe it's on the horizon. Nice vid 👌

Great video! I’ve been trying to figure out what setup I should do to encourage my Goldring danios to spawn or how to collect their eggs

Excellent system mate and nicely explained. Anyone can follow that for sure.

Great video! Just supported your etsy page!

Hi Blake, great video. I bought one of your egg catchers and look forward to simplifying the eggs collection step. Quick question. Would cherry shrimp eat cpd eggs or help keep them fungus free? Thanks

Comprehensive video mate well done, i've been thinking of trying to breed CPD's sometime down the track. I'll deffo go with your box rather than faffing around with bottles and flyscreen . Mate in all those Kmart tank's you have how is the overflow system working with those green taps?

I’ll have to order another colony very soon 😊

Subscribed! The amount of free info here is amazing. Great job. Question: Im planning to try this with tiger barbs and neon tetras. Do you think this method will work just as well?? Any tips?

Hi Blake. Great video again mate. Info please, where can I get hold of the stainless strainers you have on the black pipework going into the tanks. Thanks mate. Richard

How many attempts did that intro take 😆

Great vid/

Good vid, I didn't catch you say, or you didn't say how often to feed the fry. What's the minimum number of times per day you feed them?

Do you find it necessary to run any air in the breeder boxes?

What kind of filament do you use to print fish safe 3D objects?

Hi do you print in PETG or PLA or else?

Oh yeah. All my tanks are the dirted method with a river sand🏝️cap🧢 really thick substrate of about 3&1/2 inches or 90mil. so I’m always having plants 🪴& wood🪵 & all that cycling through & always trying to get more & more to grow in substrate which is always an extremely expensive struggle. I’ll take all the help for hence I can get from anyone worth listening to which is definitely you.

The sponge filter over your shoulder at the beginning looks clogged with white slime; that happens to me a lot. Do they still work that way?

Thanks for the amazing and detailed info, Blake.

How ppm watter in aquarium tetra?

Do you sell them to LFSs? Whats the wholesale price for CPDs?

Hey Blake. Nice to see you making perfect videos as always. My nano tanks are all about 30 L with 152 L tank & if you small 12 L tanks. I have a few questions. 1) can leopard 🐆 danio’s live fine with celestial pearl danio’s & does fast way Aquarium sell celestial pearl danio’ls because I always go to my local shop Up Market Aquarium & sometimes the next closest one I enjoy going to a lot. Is North Coburg Aquarium but fast way Aquarium is harder for me to get to because I am on public transport. My question is do you sell celestial pearl danio’s or do you recommend? I wait until you breed them & is there some lest I can get put on so I know that I am buying them from you because that’s the only way I can afford to support one of my fellow fish fam. Members. I don’t have money from memberships so always feel bad that I can’t support Alex in Seattle (Fishtory) the way I would like to. You’re the only Aussie I “know” online, but I would want to support by purchasing the fish from. That’s a lot of questions all over the place so let me know how you go. Keep up the good work.

Fun

Stupid question. Does Etsy do the exchange rate from AU to USD

Do you have CPD for sale? Shipping to Melbourne.

I tried putting them in a community tank but they end up just disappearing and not breeding

Quality vid🔥 Definitely going to pick up one of your egg collectors soon, they look great🤙 Thank you thank you✌️♥️

Any alternative to an external breeder box? Something for inside the tank?

I want to get CPDs but they are $20 each where I am and I don't want to fork out $400 on fish.

Ive bred these fish in hard water with higher ph 🤷‍♂️

Ever had an issue when your CPD just refuse to lay eggs ? It was going very well and then all of a sudden they completely stoped doing it. 🤷