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.
@@Richardmunoz86it does make it difficult. Shipping is flat regardless of how many are in the order so maybe that would help ease the pain to get a couple 😅. Unfortunatelybthats what it costs me to send I dont make anything on top
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 👌
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.
@@kmlumd44 Yeah you are absolutely right. Some people aren't meant to use methalyn. It his too powerfull of a tool for the common man who has to know the rule of tree, mathematics, proportions, dilutions, percentages n'stuff. That's why government had to pass laws over the availability of methalin (especially the green, blue and purple ones) it is a felony in most places to have methaline-G/B/P in your possession. Maybe you will be lucky if you go to the hardware store in the paint department and ask for methalyn-white. It is used as a degreaser but will work on fish eggs to keep fungal based viruses out of there (just add more). The yellow one is better but harder to find. I bought mine from a restaurant who where using it as a disinfectant. No one will sell it to you outright but if you ask the owner to get a small quantity they should be happy to give it (or sell it) to you for about 6$
@@kmlumd44 They signed stupid laws for stupid people in Canada because some gentlemens where using fish medicine instead of going to the hospital. I can't find any on the shelves. I need to get a $$$ prescription first from a vetenarian. Fortunately, there seems to be a loophole in the law and I was able to find all the classic fish remedies (malachite green, methyl blue, antibiotics) in a less concentrated formula on Amazon.
for freshwater aquariums simple good quality pla+ is perfectly fine and ive had some submerged for 4+ years with 0 degradation. theres a bit of talk about it from a number of years ago that it was PETG minimum but filament quality and the materials used to produce it has come a long way.
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?
Hey Ben, its just a pipe that the tap is below the oitlet so when i close it (unless i forget about it and the tank drains below the strainer) it is under constant syphon. That way its just turn tap, wait for drain, fill with hose
@@BlakesAquatics that’s pretty ingenious well in my book anyway, how does it stay under constant syphon just water filled pipes or gravity. If I’m ever allowed to have a rack in the garage 😂 I’ll probably try and replicate that cheers mate. Should demo it in your next room tour 🤔
Hey man! Love the video and currently using this system. Quick question, what do you do about the detritus that builds up in the outer breeding box with the CPDs? Should I be trying to clean that? How long before you put them in their own tank?
Hi will CPD just breed on their own? I’ve had them in a room temperature 75, about 6 of them. Never seen any babies and they’ve been in there over a year. Tons of plants too. Sponge filtered.
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
Got a 3D printer, any way to print these my self? I'm not worried about the 50 AUD or 25 AUD shipping, but in the EU customs and customs handling fees doubles the price.
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
@@johngriffin5446 resin isnt aquarium safe i dont think? I used to but people started ripping them off and reselling so now i just sell the ohysical prints and ship worldwide
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.
Yeah leopard danios can go with cpds, the major risk is that the LDs will eat the food and cpds if theyre more shy may not get as much but its easy to keep an eye on. Fastway always have cpds in stock. I just sell mine there these days
Hallo, i am Ruud from Holland, Manu tienkamp for your super explenation. I Will order buy etsy 5 kits. Please can you tell me short which ph and kh your using for the cpd’s. Kind regards, Ruud van Eldik Netherlands
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.
@@BlakesAquatics Thank you so much for responding. I can keep all my leopard danios together & then keep my cpd’s separate all together. Those leopard danios can be extremely so I strongly disagree with anyone that says they are a find community fish. Yes technically they go with other fish but they’re so extremely aggressive. They just bully the other fish until they starve. I’ve even had to use tweezers carefully to go past the extremely aggressive individuals to feed the more docile leopard danios. Thank you very much for the extremely helpful tip that fast where sells the cpds. I will keep them separate. This is very exciting. Do you think I can keep cpds with white cloud minnows? I am assuming this would work. I swear those little leopard danios are like freaking piranahs. I have never seen such an aggressive little fish except of course with cichlids. I don’t have any experience to speak of in our hobby but I’ve still seen enough fish growing up to know how they behave generally with some of the species.
When you are kind enough to respond with your most priceless precious time & then when I respond is this part of a TH-cam chat that anyone can see. I’m totally fine either way. I don’t care because we’re just talking fish stuff but it’s a general question I wonder?
You could take the principle i guess and make it work for a box siliconed inside the tank or a container with an outflow but it would probably end up being more difficult. Why are you against the hobb?
@@BlakesAquatics It would keep the same temperature as in the main tank. Also some people keep their tank in furniture or small spaces. You erradicate the risk of bumping into it. Some people have no choice to keep a lid on to prevent their cat from doing a mess, general aesthetics ... The idea of keeping things inside is not bad at all.
@@aqua_bauer fair concern, as i say i dont leave mine on all the time only when i am in there. If the room wasnt heated i guess that could be an issue though
@@mr.octopus6972 i wasnt being critical, just trying to understand the reasoning. Thats fair. Im allergic to cats so dont know what people need to do to cat proof their stuff 😅. Ok then yeah id probabpy silicone a couple of pieces of glass inside the tank to act as a sump. Could possibly clamp the hobb inside the tank as well as an option
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?
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 wouldn’t mind getting one but shipping to the us. Makes it pricey.
@@Richardmunoz86it does make it difficult. Shipping is flat regardless of how many are in the order so maybe that would help ease the pain to get a couple 😅. Unfortunatelybthats what it costs me to send I dont make anything on top
@@sarahsindeband9043emerald rasboras, any other danios, ive heard pea puffers. Plenty of other egg scatterers
@@BlakesAquatics thanks!
So youre saying that with your tray that the eggs get laid onto it and sucked upwards into the hangon breeder box along with the freshwater?
Thanks!
Thank you!
Excellent system mate and nicely explained. Anyone can follow that for sure.
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
That's a great idea!
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
You can do it!
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 👌
If i can do it with 3 boys of mine own you can too 👍👍
So youre saying that with your tray that the eggs get laid onto it and sucked upwards into the hangon breeder box along with the freshwater?
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.
Fair call, if the box is getting really bad sometimes i do a little suction clean using an airline
@@BlakesAquatics tried that but it was sucking fish up too, they're so small
Where is this methalyn blue? Its the second time i hears about this. Where can i get it locally
@@kmlumd44
Yeah you are absolutely right.
Some people aren't meant to use methalyn. It his too powerfull of a tool for the common man who has to know the rule of tree, mathematics, proportions, dilutions, percentages n'stuff.
That's why government had to pass laws over the availability of methalin (especially the green, blue and purple ones) it is a felony in most places to have methaline-G/B/P in your possession.
Maybe you will be lucky if you go to the hardware store in the paint department and ask for methalyn-white. It is used as a degreaser but will work on fish eggs to keep fungal based viruses out of there (just add more).
The yellow one is better but harder to find. I bought mine from a restaurant who where using it as a disinfectant. No one will sell it to you outright but if you ask the owner to get a small quantity they should be happy to give it (or sell it) to you for about 6$
@@kmlumd44
They signed stupid laws for stupid people in Canada because some gentlemens where using fish medicine instead of going to the hospital. I can't find any on the shelves. I need to get a $$$ prescription first from a vetenarian.
Fortunately, there seems to be a loophole in the law and I was able to find all the classic fish remedies (malachite green, methyl blue, antibiotics) in a less concentrated formula on Amazon.
What kind of filament do you use to print fish safe 3D objects?
for freshwater aquariums simple good quality pla+ is perfectly fine and ive had some submerged for 4+ years with 0 degradation. theres a bit of talk about it from a number of years ago that it was PETG minimum but filament quality and the materials used to produce it has come a long way.
@@BlakesAquatics thanks Blake!
I completely understand. No hard feelings. I would like to own one eventually.
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?
Hey Ben, its just a pipe that the tap is below the oitlet so when i close it (unless i forget about it and the tank drains below the strainer) it is under constant syphon. That way its just turn tap, wait for drain, fill with hose
@@BlakesAquatics that’s pretty ingenious well in my book anyway, how does it stay under constant syphon just water filled pipes or gravity. If I’m ever allowed to have a rack in the garage 😂 I’ll probably try and replicate that cheers mate. Should demo it in your next room tour 🤔
Great video! Just supported your etsy page!
Awesome! Thank you!
Çok teşekkürler. Çok faydalı bilgiler.
Hey man! Love the video and currently using this system. Quick question, what do you do about the detritus that builds up in the outer breeding box with the CPDs? Should I be trying to clean that? How long before you put them in their own tank?
Hey mate yeah i give it a clean every week or so with a piece of airline hose as a gravel vac
Would this work with Tiger Barbs?
Hi will CPD just breed on their own? I’ve had them in a room temperature 75, about 6 of them. Never seen any babies and they’ve been in there over a year. Tons of plants too. Sponge filtered.
Its happened before but its unusual. Theyll typically eat the eggs before they hatch
@@BlakesAquatics I see. Perhaps I need a few more and to set up a breeding spot. Thanks
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
Hi thanks for that and good question. Yes i have found that they do eat them
Got a 3D printer, any way to print these my self? I'm not worried about the 50 AUD or 25 AUD shipping, but in the EU customs and customs handling fees doubles the price.
@@FinnRenard tinkercad is a free and easy way to get started designing 👍 i understand
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
Hey richard, i literally just searched stainless steel strainer. If you are in australia i boight them from dural irrigation online
would it be just as easy to breed TIGER BARBS with this system ?
I might have to give this a go, as I have 40 cpd's spread among a couple of scapes, you might see an order for one of those egg catchers :)
Good luck if so 👍😄
I live in america. Do you sell the 3D printer plans for the egg catch? I have a large resin printer and would like to print one up
@@johngriffin5446 resin isnt aquarium safe i dont think? I used to but people started ripping them off and reselling so now i just sell the ohysical prints and ship worldwide
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?
Once a day sometimes when i get busy, ideally 3 to 5 times a day
Just ordered a couple. Tkns Blake.
Sent them today 😄 thank you
Hi do you print in PETG or PLA or else?
Pla+ 👍
Thank you for the inspiration. I ordered 2 last night. This also means I will have to get another couple of tanks 😁 ( Who say's I have MTS ? )
@@blue_by_name thank you 🙏
Why aren’t the in tank breeder boxes as good as the hang-out of tank ones?
Great Video
Thanks for the quality info
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?
Thats actually some black beard algae thats dieing off after being treated with h2o2
Do you find it necessary to run any air in the breeder boxes?
No i dont. It wouldnt hurt im sure but not required
Do you sell them to LFSs? Whats the wholesale price for CPDs?
I do, its up to you to negotiate your own pricing. Od rather not publicise that because people will easily undercut me
Ohhhh. Lighting. Maybe that’s why mine don’t do anything 🤣 need that mood lighting for them. I’ll fix that thanks for this!!
How many attempts did that intro take 😆
4 🤣
😂
The Great video
I am from Bintan Island
Indonesia❤
how long does it take to print those?
@@lakebed-n3c 8 hours or so
is it made from pla or petg?
@@zodiak2461 pla+. Had some submerged 5 year 0 issues
Very tempted to try my lucky on this since my local fish store here in Sydney are selling this little guys for 40aud each! 😅
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.
Yeah leopard danios can go with cpds, the major risk is that the LDs will eat the food and cpds if theyre more shy may not get as much but its easy to keep an eye on. Fastway always have cpds in stock. I just sell mine there these days
Stupid question. Does Etsy do the exchange rate from AU to USD
Yeah it converts it all
@@BlakesAquatics if I wanted to order a bunch is there a discount?
@@joeprovenzano4362 its flat rate shipping so that should help keep prices down on multiple purchases hopefully
Quality vid🔥 Definitely going to pick up one of your egg collectors soon, they look great🤙
Thank you thank you✌️♥️
I’ll have to order another colony very soon 😊
Hallo, i am Ruud from Holland,
Manu tienkamp for your super explenation.
I Will order buy etsy 5 kits.
Please can you tell me short which ph and kh your using for the cpd’s.
Kind regards,
Ruud van Eldik
Netherlands
Good to know, great info mate :)
Glad to help
How ppm watter in aquarium tetra?
Do you have CPD for sale? Shipping to Melbourne.
Try fastway aquarium west footscray, i sell there
Thanks for the amazing and detailed info, Blake.
My pleasure!
Adorable
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.
Appreciate it 😅
@@BlakesAquatics Thank you so much for responding. I can keep all my leopard danios together & then keep my cpd’s separate all together. Those leopard danios can be extremely so I strongly disagree with anyone that says they are a find community fish. Yes technically they go with other fish but they’re so extremely aggressive. They just bully the other fish until they starve. I’ve even had to use tweezers carefully to go past the extremely aggressive individuals to feed the more docile leopard danios. Thank you very much for the extremely helpful tip that fast where sells the cpds. I will keep them separate. This is very exciting. Do you think I can keep cpds with white cloud minnows? I am assuming this would work. I swear those little leopard danios are like freaking piranahs. I have never seen such an aggressive little fish except of course with cichlids. I don’t have any experience to speak of in our hobby but I’ve still seen enough fish growing up to know how they behave generally with some of the species.
When you are kind enough to respond with your most priceless precious time & then when I respond is this part of a TH-cam chat that anyone can see. I’m totally fine either way. I don’t care because we’re just talking fish stuff but it’s a general question I wonder?
so simple but such a good idea im so going to do this.
Hope you like it!
Hey danke für das tolle Video viele Grüße aus Bayern in Deutschland 😂🎉
Any alternative to an external breeder box? Something for inside the tank?
You could take the principle i guess and make it work for a box siliconed inside the tank or a container with an outflow but it would probably end up being more difficult. Why are you against the hobb?
@@BlakesAquatics I fear that the external box will overflow with time
@@BlakesAquatics
It would keep the same temperature as in the main tank. Also some people keep their tank in furniture or small spaces. You erradicate the risk of bumping into it. Some people have no choice to keep a lid on to prevent their cat from doing a mess, general aesthetics ...
The idea of keeping things inside is not bad at all.
@@aqua_bauer fair concern, as i say i dont leave mine on all the time only when i am in there. If the room wasnt heated i guess that could be an issue though
@@mr.octopus6972 i wasnt being critical, just trying to understand the reasoning. Thats fair. Im allergic to cats so dont know what people need to do to cat proof their stuff 😅. Ok then yeah id probabpy silicone a couple of pieces of glass inside the tank to act as a sump. Could possibly clamp the hobb inside the tank as well as an option
Love it....thanks and new sub
Welcome!
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?
Neon tetras need a really low ph to hatch. Tiger barbs should be ok. Both would be possible but maybe not a walk in the park 😅 thanks
Comment for the almighty algorithm
I tried putting them in a community tank but they end up just disappearing and not breeding
Fun
Great vid/
I have 10 mixed danios with five cpd and they are never hiding
The power of dither fish
I want to get CPDs but they are $20 each where I am and I don't want to fork out $400 on fish.
Yeah fair enough 👍
Get a couple females and a nice male and start breeding, then selling! If they're $20 each that means more chance to profit by undercutting.
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. 🤷
I have had that a couple of times. Usually its because theyve found another site. A good rescape works
Ive bred these fish in hard water with higher ph 🤷♂️
🙌