Celestial Pearl Danio! Right Fish For You? 

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.

Great information! Love dans enthusiasm and knowledge

Really love these profiles! Great job Dan!

Great fish talk! Love this fish and keep them with my rummy nose rasboras, beautiful!

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.

Love these fish! Great video. ❤

That's a great video. Thanks a lot.

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.

Absolutely one of my favorites! Love these micro trout!

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!

Very helpful info 👍! I really like your rating system, too. 😀 As usual, great job, "friendly fish monger!" You deserve faaaaar more subscribers!!!

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!

These are my favorite looking schooling fish, I really wanna try and get a school of them someday.

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.

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!

Ive had CPD's for about a year and absolutely love them.

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 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

my group are doing great. I love this little fish.

Great video bro 👊🏽👍thanks 🙏🏾❤️🤗

Love your videos Dan!

Woot! Another vid 👍🏽

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.

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

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 love these types of videos, kind of like Clint's Reptiles but for fish.

When this fish came to market the celestial pearl danios, i thought wow this fish is out of this world…. Pardon the pun😂

blast me with more of your first hand fish knowledge, dan🐟 great videos, for real

I remember when these fish came on the scene!

Superb

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.

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.

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😮😮

These fish retail for $30+ each in my LFS in Melbourne, Australia. Silly pricing.

Have 7 of these guys in my 20 gal with a betta and 13 Dwarf corys

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.

Yea try finding them locally in bflo

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.

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.

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

I got 5 from a display tank in a store and now I have hundreds of them.

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?

My CPD’s are not shy at all 😂, they are the craziest ones I got

Took 12 in a 10 gallon to get them to not hide. They are with male betta and Amano shrimp.

Will CPDs out compete badis?

💯 ⭐️

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

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

Right fish for me!

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

I really want like 9 of these and a betta...is that a bad idea?

I want some

is this the same as galaxy rasbora

Hmmmmm maybe I'll try a slow eater's tank.

It states they are out of stock on your website.

So the country origin?

A large group of dwarf corydoras act as the dither fish and bring my CPD's out.

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.

If you want to see them, just reduce light

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 really like these guys. They are cool and cute.

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.