Several batches of eggs are serially deposited in an egg-scattering fashion and should be removed to a secure net or container. These hatch within 3 days. Another report suggests that over 4000-5000 eggs are laid in several spawning of a night and that the fish spawn in groups, although the ratio of males to females required is not clear. The fry should be fed small live foods, and then as they grow tubifex worms and eventually catfish tablets. Can be kept singly or in groups given adequate refuge for each individual.
Young fish like to hide vertically in bushy plants.
Older fish will burrow in sand or fine, rounded gravel as well as under stones or bogwood. A fish enthusiast for the last 20 years. He currently resides in Singapore and a veteran expedition traveler in hunt for exotic fishes in South East Asia. Copyright 1998 .