I've had my eye on these fish for months now but I've always been put off by their relatively high cost and their reputation of being shy, plus thinking they don't look as attractive in real life than they've looked online. However, I took the chance a week ago now and got six (two males four females) for my smaller tank, and I'm glad I did. They're incredible little fish, both in their appearance and their behavior. They are a beautiful colour and I've had no issues with them being shy despite having an open, light sandy substrate along the front half of my tank, and they will happily spend as much time out in the open by themselves than exploring the dense foliage in the other half. I agree with everything you've said in your video, and you've done a great job trying to film these little nippers, and I'd highly recommend them to any aquarist!

I have them with neons, rummies embers and shrimps. The Celestial Danios are definitely the most aggressive, territorial and are constantly going for the neocaradina shrimps(none of the tetras are bothered by them). I was a bit surprised after watching many videos! Anyway, they're amazing and so beautiful. Maybe best kept on their own..?

I was considering Celestial Pearl Danios for my nano tank. Now I'm convinced. Thank you for a brilliant video. Fine quality.

Great video thank you. I’ve been keeping a group of five of these for several months now. They share their tank with White Cloud Mountain minnows, medaka and variatus platys. They are extremely tolerant to low temperatures. We live on a narrowboat and the water temperatures are regularly between 10 > 12C. They are still active and feeding. The same goes for their tank mates.

I sometimes wonder if CPDs are only shy if kept in community. I have mine by themselves and holy cow, they’re bold. So much personality for such a tiny fish. I don’t know why they have that reputation for being shy.

Really great quality video, im surprised you only have a few hundred subscribers, looking forward to seeing more

I have mine in a 90 gallon with a bunch of neon tetras and some gold barbs. They do not hide and are always out in open water.

One thing I've learned about CPD is they like to emulate the behavior of other fish species around them. I've put them alone in their own tank and they where very shy. As soon as I added guppy in there, they all came out and started to act very socially towards me. I was curious so I've repeated the experience under many diverse circumstances and different species of fish. If they're put with another shy fish they stay shy. If they're put with a social fish, they become social. If they're put with a fish that moves alot, they swim more.... It's fascinating.

the Hikari semi floating micro pellets are small enough for CPDs to eat and they seem to be most of my minnow sized fishes' favorite dried food.

Best video on the CPD I've found so far. Well done indeed.

What an incredibly in depth video! Thank you for sharing all of your observations!

Third video I've watched on your channel. Really well made and informative. Thank you.

What a gem of a channel!!! 💎 very well done videos, and narration just fabulous! Definitely subscribed, and look forward to more content!!

I've recently got myself back into the aquarium hobby after being away for about ten years. My 20 gallon tank has been set up for about three months and all I have at the moment are five Dwarf Rainbowfish and two Amano shrimp. My local stockist has CPD's in stock and I was looking to purchase, but a little unsure due to their reputation of being extremely shy, but after watching your informative video I will do so😃 Hope to see more videos in the future.

Brilliant, beautiful video. You need more subscribers for sure!

Set my tank up last week. Eyed up fish at the shop and fell in love with these they look like lil trout. Thanks for the vid hopefully get them some lil buddies

I have 6 and they are anything but shy. I loved your video ❤

great video, I'm currently keeping a dozen in a 20 and they are super fun to watch!

The nice thing is that the offspring are much less shy and much healthier than the imported fish.

Very descriptive. They're pretty good

Just subbed if I'm not mistaken you just reached 100 subs. Congratulations! Very good video btw CPD's are awesome nano fish👍

Great video

I have 12....I absolutely love them.

Great video. Thanks!

Very good! I love CPD’s!

I'm setting up a 20 gallon tank soon and I've been trying to decide between Celestial Pearl Danios and Heterandria Formosa. I do think the CPD is a prettier fish and after your video they pulling into the lead as my preferred fish for this setup. Thank you for the excellent video!

My celestials are very confident too & doing so great in my planted 20 gallon w guppies & corydoras & ghost shrimp. I got them when they were 1/4 inch I thought they may not live (I ordered them online) but they have absolutely thrived so far ❤️

Awseome fish love them had those and galaxy rasbora in a 20 galon totally gorgeous

I found pellet food for triops. These are 1/3 to 1/2 millimeter in diameter. Even then pearl danios are finding it difficult to swallow but they get used to it.

I’ve got 11 in a 20 long with 2 sparkling gourami. They aren’t shy at all and spend the day chasing each other everywhere. It’s densely planted with high light/co2. No shyness at all.

Nice informative vid. Got you a subscriber.

My CPDs behave very similar to how you described. I feed mine fluval bug bites and don't seem to have any problems in them eating it intact they love it

i found a pellet food small enough for the danios. it's the dr bassleer baby & nano s. my adult danios even eat the bassleer regular m. they sink slowly and are the highest protein content i could find in any food. maybe give it a try, my danios and even amanos go absolutely crazy for it :D

Great video, really informative about CPDs! People have been really conservative to keep them in warmer temperatures (No more than 26 degrees C) since they come from a sub tropical hilly climate but they can do well in a wide range!

Hi. This is the first video I've seen on your channel and it so impressed me, I paused and subscribed (No.716) even before the halfway point. Excellent videography and voiceover throughout (great to hear a UK accent, btw). I've only been in the hobby a couple of years and my preference is nano fish/shrimp, so Tiny Menagerie is a great fit for me. (So far, I have a tank with longfin blue Leopard danio's in with Amano shrimp, a tank with longfin WCMM's and tanks with RCS, Blue Diamond neo's and green Babaulti shrimp. Oh, and Zebra nerite and Rabbit snails). Going forward, CPD's are at the top of the list of species I'd like to keep in the near future, hopefully in a biotope type set-up (100 litre tank: 91 × 38; × 30 cms) with possible tank mates, depending on availability being; Rosy Loaches (which I've seen referred to variously as either a Yunnanilus or Petruichthys species), Red dwarf rasbora (Microrasbora rubescens), Sparkling gourami (Trichopsis pumila - guess which video I'm watching next 😀). With this in mind, I've been reading up about them via various databases/guides, however if you should happen to read this ( I know it's been a few months since the video was posted), I'd be very interested to know what water parameters you're keeping yours in (Ph, Gh, Kh, temp.) ?

I second the other comment on here, you should have many more subscribers!. Your videos are great quality and you have great content. It does take time to gain subscribers. Keep up the good work! Subscribed!

Nice

very kool

Great video. Full of good information. I have some CPDs on order and I get them next weekend, so I'm researching as much as possible and this video has been fantastic. Thank you.

I have mine in a 55 gallon tetra community tank..they're fun

I have 3 glo Danios and I love them. They even come to the surface to greet me.

I have 6 tiny ones in a heavily planted 20L nano and they seem to be doing very well. They are feisty, interact with each other a lot, chase each other around, sometimes the males duel, use all of the plant enriched areas.. I do not plan on breeding them as I am not even sure if I want to keep them long term. I do consider moving them to a bigger 40L tank in the near future once I find a proper shelf. I do have some red cherry shrimp in there aswell, not sure how successfully they'll manage to breed since these are very active fish and will cover the space of the tank quite quickly and probably find the shrimplets.

Brilliant video, very informative! Just wondering but do you know how many females should be with males? I've got some, but where very young, they've just started getting their colours and now there are more males to females!! Ive only got a 45l tank so dont want the females to become stressed!

i just got my first school of galaxy,s in my 100 G ,now my favourite fish of all time, next to Asian arrowanna

I'm deciding between some CPDs or some Ember Tetras for my first tank. You have great videos on both and it's making it so hard to choose!

I can confirm that they are quite shy ;x I have 6 of them in 30 L tank.

Petsmart now has them

Hello very nice! Do u know if I can keep them with rasbora espei? Thanks

In your experience, what do they like to eat the most. mine only go for baby brine shrimp and i am worry of nutrition imbalance soon.

My experience has been sadly different. I have a 10 gallon tank with a couple (2) ember tertras and live plants, about 2 months set up. I have attempted celestials three times now and have ended up losing every one, maybe initiated by aggression between them and subsequent fungal infections but even the aggressive Celestials also stopped feeding and were found dead with fungus. I am very careful with water changes etc, and my other 10 gallon, a cold water tank, has leopard, longfin zebra and White Clouds (too many fish, one would think) who are thriving. When I attempted a treatment to save the Celestials (API Primafix) it just hastened their demise, they died almost instantly! But the Ember tetras still carry on. The cold tank has pea gravel substrate and a Sicce Nano Micron filter with the carbon cartridge. The warm tank, a hang on back power filter. I do small water changes frequently and about 30-40% as needed. I am wondering if the Fluval stratum I spent so much $ on is a culprit in the warm tank issue? Or did one Celestial maybe introduce a disease, or could the fighting/fin nipping be what started this downhill cascade? Thank you for reading all this. I hate to give up on the Celestials what is going wrong, do I need to tear this whole tank apart, throw out the plants and stratum and start all over?

Do you think there would be any nipping on a honey gourami by the cpd?

Hi , is there somewhere i can download the background song? (Musica lenta - Melodias variadas) I can't seem to find the full song. I'll get some CPD in my new aquarium once it's completely setup :)

How big is your tank? Its beautiful! How many fish do you have in there?

I bought 9 of them yesterday.

4:23 what type of plant is that?

6:29 what type of moss is that?

This was a really helpfull guide! All tho i need help with something, my CPD are almost trasparent and i baerly see their spots, in fish store the colours were diffrent, btw i bought them yesterday, can you help me please how to make their colours be brighter?

Have you had success, breeding them?

This is the first time I’ve heard they are nippy! Do you think it would be a bad idea to have Honey Gourami as tank mates because of their stringy lil pelvic fins?

Please if you may, advise me. Do they predate shrimplets if say I decide to intro them into my shrimp tank?

Hi! am wondering, are u running CO2 in your celestial danios tabk?

hey could i keep them in a coldwater 20C tank with loaches and other danios?

I'm wanting to have no lid on 10 gallon. Do they tend to jump out of tank?

Daphne is a womans name! The fish eat Daphnia!

WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE MUSIC!