The scientific name of mandarin fish, also known as mandarin fish and seasonal flower fish, is a rare fish among freshwater fish. There are many strains of mandarin fish, bigeyed mandarin fish, spotted mandarin fish and dark mandarin fish. Siniperca chuatsi grows fastest, followed by Siniperca bigeyed. Siniperca chuatsi is a typical carnivorous fish, and likes to eat live bait. It often devours live fry such as silver carp, grass carp, black carp, bream bream, bream bream, and amblyopia gracilis, which are longer than its own length.

Mandarin fish are divided into standard mandarin fish and non-standard mandarin fish. Standard mandarin fish refers to this specification with a tail weight of 8 Liang to 1.2 Jin. Those not of this specification are called non-standard mandarin fish. The price of standard mandarin fish is about 30-40% higher than that of non-standard mandarin fish. It is best to control the density and produce the most standard mandarin fish in artificial breeding.

Siniperca chuatsi is carnivorous, feeding on all kinds of small fish and shrimps in water, and can devour fish with their own body length 1/3. In artificial culture, there should be three times the area of pond for feeding fish, mostly shad. According to the growth of Siniperca chuatsi, the growth rate of Siniperca chuatsi should be controlled to maintain the best palatability.

Under the condition of artificial culture of mandarin fish, there are diseases and insect pests such as rotifer and calicivirus, and it is also prone to hepatobiliary metabolic syndrome. There are high requirements for aquaculture technology.