About three months.

The mud fish is also called "brown basket fish", "elephant fish", "sheep baby", etc. The mud fish lives in the sea area of ??1-50 meters. The young fish are often found in tide pools. The fish inhabits reef platforms, gentle slopes or mixed reef-sand areas with lush seaweed. Omnivorous, feeding mainly on algae and small benthic animals. April to June (water temperature 22-25°C) is the breeding time of basket fish, which lays sticky eggs that mostly adhere to seaweed. After hatching, the larvae feed on seaweed, causing great harm to seaweed farming, especially Gracilaria farming.