There are vendors on here carrying all three common species of bagarius. At least as of the beginning of the month. I believe Alex (Fish Room Plus) had them.
Humans being eaten by mutant fish.
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headbanger_jib;2295794; said:
don't know about other catfish, but walking catfish is used as dead carcass disposers at poultry farms here. Very efficient from what i have heard. My RTCs have no qualms about eating dead food (never tried rotten though lol), i don't do it because it makes the water unclean (that is, more W/C are necessary)
The natural occuring walking catifish (e.g. from natural paddy fields and streams) are quite small (20-30cm max) but there are farm raised one which get really REALLY big. I am not sure if it is a cross breed with something else (apparently not such a good food fish the farmed one)... will try to get a picture when i go back next time
Yes, humans are quite imaginative ^^
Shame on the Sun for saying that bagarius is a mutant fish. Is Sun a tabloid that also writes about UFOs and such? Or is it a respectable newspaper?
I would say after that tall tell that have to be low class. Second rate paper. But that is one bad *** Cat!
Foxnews picked up the story and that is how I found it. I have respect Fox News as a good source of info without the liberal bias, that being said they are major drama artists, capitalizing on sensationalist BS. Every story is the biggest, best, most frightening, terrible event to ever happen... until the next story...
synodontisjack;2293859; said:
except the fox news report would have finished with
"these killer catfish could strike anywhere, your kitchen, your shower, even from the toilet"
There are very good reports of big african walking catfish which did feed on the carcasses of dead hippos. I don´t know how fresh they were, but surely not only dead since a minute. I think up to a distinct degree many catfish would still eat from a carcass. If a human carcass which is already partly burned (and therefore with lesser though flesh and skin) comes into the water, I can very well imagine that many catfish would feed on it (although I know of course that this article of the sun is nothing but BS). Interestingly at least Silurus glanis will sometimes eat partly decomposed food. Although they will never encounter any cephalopod in a lake or river, squid is a quite good bait for them, especially if it already stinks. So if they find stinking squid (and they smell horrible) tasty, why not carcasses which are already a bit stinking too?
Think most catfish, if not all, are opportunistic feeders and if given the chance of a easy meal they will take it, especially when times are hard. 
counldn't agree with you more... I think we have "picky" eatters cause they know that they have better food avail and will "wait you out" since we never really let them go hungry... they wouldn't eat this well in the wild thats for sure...wayne the pain;2296550; said:Think most catfish, if not all, are opportunistic feeders and if given the chance of a easy meal they will take it, especially when times are hard.
