Author: Kowasupat, Panijpan, Ruenwongsa & Jeenthong, 2012
Comments: Inhabits shallow freshwater marshes, grass fields, and paddy fields. Found at the water edge (with dense vegetation) of ponds, lagoons, ditches, canals, and others water ways. Occurs in still waters and uses water plants as shelter to set up safe territory for building the bubble-nest, courtship, and hatching of fry. Cohabits with <i>Trichopsis vittata</i>, <i>Trichopsis schalleri</i>, <i>Trichopsis pumila</i>, <i>Trichopodus trichopterus</i>, <i>Anabas testudineus</i>, <i>Lepidocephalichthys hasselti</i>, <i>Pangio anguillaris</i>	, <i>Macrognathus siamensis</i>, and <i>Monopterus albus</i> (Ref. 93122).