The invention discloses a method for breeding adult mandarin fishes, and relates to the technical field of aquaculture. The method comprises the following steps of pond selection, pond preparation, breeding of forage fishes, stocking of mandarin fish fingerling, breeding management, water quality management and fish disease prevention and treatment. The method has the advantages that production resources are made full use of, no professional equipment is required, breeding pollution is avoided, the breeding technology is standard, feed supply is scientific and standard, the quality of the adult mandarin fishes is improved to a large extent, and therefore the quality and the yield of mandarin fishes are improved.