The price of 60cm lucky fish ranges from over 100 yuan to several hundred yuan. Of course, the best varieties can also be sold for around 2,000 yuan.
Lucky fish lives in estuary waters with a water depth of more than 2 meters, inhabiting slow-flow areas. It is rarely found in large rivers; it likes to cluster and swim vertically up and down. When the water temperature drops below 12°C, it will suffer frostbite or even freeze to death; the suitable growth water temperature is 19-33°C, with the optimum temperature being 23-28°C. The survival salinity is below 20. It has strong hypoxia tolerance. The dissolved oxygen required for normal growth is 3 mg/L of water, and the suffocation point is 0.3 mg/L of water.