Not documented as bred by hobbyists without hormones. Farms in Southeast Asia (and later Eastern Europe) breed it with hormone injections; in the wild it migrates to flooded tributaries to spawn at the start of the rainy season.
Buy a large group and keep for years. Maturity can take 4+ years.
Farms use hormone induction. Home spawns are very rare.
Hormone injection on farms; seasonal wild cues.
Hormone-induced females release thousands of eggs (about 76,000-109,000 eggs per kg of female body weight); eggs hatch in about 18 hours at 26.5 °C.
Feed live infusoria and baby brine shrimp. Sensitive to ich.
Adult females are fuller-bodied and larger than males of the same age; a differently shaped or more deeply forked tail in males is often claimed but unproven.