Celestial Pearl Danio

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happi

Discussion Starter · Nov 13, 2010

could anyone post picture of their fries and their Celestial Pearl Danio.

how often do they breed and how often they lay eggs. what are the other sign of breeding beside the dance, i have seen them dancing many time before but never saw any fry in my 50g tank. now i just set up the 1 gallon tank and have 5 of Celestial Pearl Danio in there for breeding.

could someone please give more advice.

thanks

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Nue

· #2 · Nov 13, 2010

Sorry do not have a picture, but they look like most fry, Betta fry is what comes to mind.
Really small sliver with eyes. I have never seen an egg before either. I imagine they eat most of them. I've never really provided anything but moss for the egg cover. They don't seem to attack the fry though. I bet you have some in there if there is cover for the eggs. They will most likely breed when the sun comes up. Look for the fry near the top of the water column if you have have floating plants, or on plants.

Good Luck!

happi

Discussion Starter · #3 · Nov 13, 2010

Nue said:
Sorry do not have a picture, but they look like most fry, Betta fry is what comes to mind.
Really small sliver with eyes. I have never seen an egg before either. I imagine they eat most of them. I've never really provided anything but moss for the egg cover. They don't seem to attack the fry though. I bet you have some in there if there is cover for the eggs. They will most likely breed when the sun comes up. Look for the fry near the top of the water column if you have have floating plants, or on plants.

Good Luck!

thanks for the info, i think you did not see any fry because they might did not hatch in your water (our Utah water), i use soft water for mine now and see what happens next. i use to have them in our Utah water and they did their dances but never saw any fry in that tank.

sewingalot

· #4 · Nov 13, 2010

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They like to breed earlier in the morning and are horrible at eating their eggs. Best method for me was putting moss in a bottom of a tank and removing it to put in a seperate tank. They breed constantly.

Hope this helps.

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Nue

· #5 · Nov 13, 2010

I ended up getting about 15 fry total, until I put them in a community tank, On utah water. But maybe I could have got a lot more. Seems like they were more productive on bloodworms.

happi

Discussion Starter · #6 · Nov 13, 2010

sewingalot

thanks for the pic and info, i was reading that it takes 80 hours for the eggs to hatch, is that correct?

happi

Discussion Starter · #7 · Nov 13, 2010

Nue said:
I ended up getting about 15 fry total, until I put them in a community tank, On utah water. But maybe I could have got a lot more. Seems like they were more productive on bloodworms.

are they still alive in your tank?

sewingalot

· #8 · Nov 13, 2010

Really depends on the temperature in my experience. It was usually right around the third day, though.

Rion

· #9 · Nov 13, 2010

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I got mine breeding about once a week, though not always successful fertilization. You will notice the males chase the females into plants and they will wiggle up against each other. You really have to remove the adults from the tank if you want to get a good number of fry. I've found removing the parents the next afternoon after a significant water change works best or later the day you see them spawn. I normally don't notice fry until a few days later when they become free swimming as they are quite tiny. I feed mine very finely crushed flake food. Also keeping the adults well conditioned is essential. Live foods work well as do other protein rich foods.

Here's some pictures:

male chasing female into anubias roots.

(http://celestialpearldanio.com/That is a nice forum devoted solely to CPDs)

I can take some pictures of my recent batch of fry that I'm growing out. Otherwise I had a CPD breeding thread way back that has some more information. Any other questions let me know.

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sewingalot

· #10 · Nov 13, 2010

^Show off.

Beautiful pictures, as always, Rion!

happi

Discussion Starter · #11 · Nov 13, 2010

rion your fries looks awesome.

i have a bad new, i think i just lost one of my Pearl Danio, i could not find the dead body anywhere. now am left with 4 of them and not sure about their sex. they are still young and not colored up all the way.

rion i will defitinally let you know if i need help. the only thing i could ask for is if any of you guys are willing to sell me some of these fishes. so i would have great chances on breeding them.

NUE you live very close to me, do you have any which you could sell me, i have some fishes and plants for trade also.

problemman

· #12 · Nov 13, 2010

I'm following this! I have 6 right now going to get them setup soon in there own tank.

Rion

· #13 · Nov 13, 2010

@sewingalot: lol, I have so many pictures of CPDs I had to. Thanks.

@happi: You had said before that you are now using soft water, I have fairly hard water out here and am not having problems. PH here is around 7.4 and the GH and KH are quite high. If you take pictures of your fish I could probably sex them for you but you are at numbers I put in my breeding tank so you should be fine for breeding still (once they are old enough).

They've got a at least a month before they'd be ready to sell, but I'm trying to stock up my numbers right now. I wish I had a house and a fish room so I could breed them in greater numbers and sell them. Have to wait a few more hours for the fry tank lights to turn on before I can take pictures. Oh here's another tip, have lots of plants in your breeding tank; more plants usually mean more micro fauna which means more fry also less stress on the adults.

happi

Discussion Starter · #14 · Nov 13, 2010

Rion said:
@sewingalot: lol, I have so many pictures of CPDs I had to. Thanks.

@happi: You had said before that you are now using soft water, I have fairly hard water out here and am not having problems. PH here is around 7.4 and the GH and KH are quite high. If you take pictures of your fish I could probably sex them for you but you are at numbers I put in my breeding tank so you should be fine for breeding still (once they are old enough).

They've got a at least a month before they'd be ready to sell, but I'm trying to stock up my numbers right now. I wish I had a house and a fish room so I could breed them in greater numbers and sell them. Have to wait a few more hours for the fry tank lights to turn on before I can take pictures. Oh here's another tip, have lots of plants in your breeding tank; more plants usually mean more micro fauna which means more fry also less stress on the adults.

i will post a picture soon, anyway what is your GH and KH

mine is 300 ppm hardness and alkanity is 160ppm out of tap water. i mix this water with distiled water, 75% disitled water with 25% tap water. i dont mind buying your fries if you could give me good deal on them.

am at work now and i will post a picture soon as i get home, thanks for your help

Rion

· #15 · Nov 13, 2010

According to my test I have the same GH and KH as you out of the tap. Sorry I can't sell you the fry I have right now as they are to replace a few losses I incurred, anyways they are quite young fry (3 weeks) and should not be shipped at this size. I think most of the price for this fish is because they take awhile to mature and individual batches of fry are relatively small.

happi

Discussion Starter · #16 · Nov 13, 2010

Rion said:
According to my test I have the same GH and KH as you out of the tap. Sorry I can't sell you the fry I have right now as they are to replace a few losses I incurred, anyways they are quite young fry (3 weeks) and should not be shipped at this size. I think most of the price for this fish is because they take awhile to mature and individual batches of fry are relatively small.

its ok then, anyway i thought that eggs dont hatch in the hard water because same happen to my german blue ram, they laid eggs but they never hatched and just turned solid white.

the eggs did not hatch due to high magnessium and calicum, which makes the eggs hard before they could hatch.

Rion

· #17 · Nov 13, 2010

Usually white eggs means that they got fungus or weren't fertilized, either way CPDs live in different water than GBRs so you can't really compare the two for water chemistry. Back when I was in Michigan I was breeding CPDs in even harder water than yours.

Nue

· #18 · Nov 13, 2010

Rion great photo's!

happi
They did survive, and matured. But since I have moved the group to a community tank, their numbers are shrinking, and don't want to make their school even smaller. I need to breed them again too! I wonder if Fish4U has some still.

happi

Discussion Starter · #19 · Nov 13, 2010

Nue said:
Rion great photo's!

happi
They did survive, and matured. But since I have moved the group to a community tank, their numbers are shrinking, and don't want to make their school even smaller. I need to breed them again too! I wonder if Fish4U has some still.

let me know if you ever breed them, fish4u hardly carry them and i called them every week for last 2 months without any sucess. however pets&such carry them sometime, i will be going there on thrusday to see if they have any or call them first.

here:
http://www.pets-and-such.com/

Nue

· #20 · Nov 13, 2010

What? pets and such never have anything that i'm interested in lol. nice.

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