The peacock fish is very adaptable, the optimal growth temperature of 22-24 ℃, preferring slightly alkaline water, pH 7.2-7.4, a wide range of food, mild temperament, lively and active, and other tropical fish can be mixed. Peacock fish is easy to raise, but to get the colorful body, beautiful fish from the fry period requires a wide body of water, more water plants, fresh bait, suitable water quality and other environments. Peacock fish 4 ~ 5 months of age gonadal development and maturity, but the ability to reproduce is very weak, in the water temperature of 24 ℃, hardness of about 8 degrees of water, can be reproduced once a month, the number of fish fry each time depending on the size of the fish body varies, as little as 5 more than one hundred more than one tail, some fish will produce more than 200 tail of young fish. When the female fish abdomen expanded bulging out, near the anus appeared a clear black fetal spot, is the sign of childbirth.