Abstract:It took 26 days for Pelteobagrus vachelli to grow into juvenile ,after thawing. The larval and juvenile development of P.vachelli were divided into four stages (namely, prelarval, larval, early juvenile and juvenile stages), and each stage was also divided into 3 periods (amount to 12 periods). The prelarval period can be divided into adherence, horizontal swimming and initial bait phases. It was necessary to provide suitable adhesive things during the adherence stage. During initial bait phase, its food maily consisted of some small Cladoceras. The larval stage was still a mixtrophic one and it mostly ingested Cladocera besides yolk. After entering the juvenile stage, its feeding characters underwent transitions twice: firstly, its foods changed from zooplankton to zoobenthos; secondly, foods changed from zoobenthos to animal-oriented polyphagia and the juvenile started to ingest artificial intensive feed. According to characters of the larval and juvenile development of P. vacheUi, a series of scientific methods about the rates of hatching and surviving of P.vachelli were suggested in this article.