Paradise fish, which in the past only a small number of organizations such as the Tachia River Ecological Conservation Society had been concerned about, came to be used in nativist education as a species that children can breed and observe in practice. Lin Ming-liang states that any ponds, ditches or agricultural irrigation cisterns that contain some freshwater plankton and aquatic plants that attract mosquitoes are all suitable for populating with paradise fish.
林明亮表示，凡是池塘、溝渠、或者農地灌溉用的蓄水池，只要有一點浮游生物與水生植物可以招來蚊蟲，都可以放養蓋斑鬥魚。