Glass Catfish - Ecology

Ecology

While the Ghost Catfish is sympatric with the Glass Catfish in western Borneo (Indonesia), the present species' range is much larger. Apart from the whole of Borneo, it also includes Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, as well as the Chao Phraya and Mekong drainage basins.

These freshwater catfish inhabit large rivers with turbid water, where they typically seem to live near the shore in regions with pronounced currents. Peaty water with a rather low temperature (for its tropical range) of 21 to 26 °C (70 to 79 °F) seems to be preferred. They are diurnal predators which mainly eat true water bugs (Nepomorpha) and occasionally smaller fishes.