When they eat, the fishes eat very fast and widen their eyes. The leaf fishes eat anything that their mouth size allows, even each other. They eat large amounts of food in a day. Their anatomy resembles the sunfish. The fishes hardly move, and they usually keep their heads down.
Leaf fish stays close to leaves.
When the female and the male leaf fishes mate, they glide past each other on the surface and stay in that position for thirty minutes. Then,the male goes away so the female can lay her egg. The female lays her eggs either on or under the leaf's surface. Sometimes, she can produce eggs while lying upside down. Three days later, the male digs a hole under the leaf in the 80 degrees Celcius temperature.