Danio margaritatus bodies in the Inle drainage, the water is slightly alkaline. The habitat is heavily vegetated with Hydrocharitaceae similar to "Elodea" (water weed). The celestial pearl danio shares its habitat with a very few fish species: a "Microrasbora" similar to "M. rubescens", a rosy loach ("Yunnanilus", possibly a new species, and the dwarf snakehead "Channa harcourtbutleri". The latter species presumably is the only known significant predator of "D. margaritatus". The species is locally fished for food to some extent; it is dried and bought as a protein source by poor people. A can of some 500 "D. margaritatus" sold for food
Creature Catalogue recommend it. Brinsley felt that organizing the book in sections by type of creature rather than just alphabetically like "AD&D"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Monster Manual"s "should certainly make life easier for those DMs who design their own adventures, and know what sort of monster they want, rather than by name". He also felt that the comprehensive references to all the monsters appearing in the "D&D" boxed sets would solve the problem of having to remember in which set a particular monster appears. He concluded the review by stating, "basically, this book contains all you could ever wish to know about monsters in the