The True Flying Fox is a ok fish for the larger community aquarium. They will chase other species out of there territories. They keep mainly to the bottom of the tank and needs some hiding places.

It prefers a planted aquarium with many broad-leaved plants on which it can rest on. It also requires these plants and rocks for grazing algae. This species can be kept with others of its own kind as long as the aquarium is large enough to allow each of them to have their own territories.

Unfortunately, the breeding habits of the True Flying Fox have not been documented.

An omnivore, the True Flying Fox is not a particularly finicky eater. Ideal foods should consist of a high quality flake food, freeze-dried bloodworms or tubifex, and pelleted foods, as well as vegetable-based foods.