 In the breeding season the adults are greyish in colour with green tones and yellow fins.This species uses the channels and puddles that remain after the rains to lay as many as 150 eggs per female which hatch after three days, the larvae reach the juvenile stage after three months and in less than one year olds become adult.Their diet largely consists of the larvae and adults of mosquitoes, although it will also feed on molluscs and other insects, such as beetles and dragonflies.