What is the catfish?

Clarias Batrachus is a kind of freshwater catfish, commonly known as a pedestrian catfish. Like many other catfish types, the ability to breathe air. It also has another unusual skill - the ability to "walk" on Earth. Although it is originally originally from parts of Southeast Asia, this catfish was introduced to certain parts of the United States (US). Most environmental experts agree that it has the potential to cause damage to the local ecosystem and has been labeled as an invasive species in many US areas. The non -exercise body is smooth and protected by thick mucus. White spots often cover a brown or gray body that ends with a long dorsal fin. The breast spine of this catfish are very sharp and often used to move on the ground.

The walking catfish is known to be resident in temporary waters, such as pools created by a flood during the rainy season. When these pools dry out, they can travel long distances in the search for water. As long as the skin remains wet, walking catfish can survivet from the water long enough to find a new home, at least temporarily. The name that walks the catfish is not technically correct. Instead of walking, this catfish moves on the ground like a snake or eel. By bending sharp pectoral spines, this fish can pull its body along the ground.

Because it is considered a tropical species, walking of catfish usually prefers warm water. It can be found in shallow, still waters and because it is a catfish breathing air, it often thrives in water with low oxygen content. Muddy, stagnating waters of temporary pools created by excess rain and floods are usually the perfect environment for this kind of fish.

Sometime during the sixties, it is believed that walking from Thailand for use in aquariums has been introduced into the United States. Shortly thereafter, some of these fish escaped, either by chance or because they were deliberately released. They are now founded in many areas of Florida and Georgia and perhaps in California and Nevada.

in many parts of the United States, especially FLOrida was imported or even owned by these live fish. Due to their extensive appetite, the catfish may have perhaps a harmful impact on ecosystems. They will eat many smaller fish and vegetation and leave a small food for larger original fish. In some parts of Florida, a catfish that feed on fish that are supplied here were found in aquaculture ponds.

The Walking Catfish is Omnivore, refreshments on various foods. Common diet items include small fish, water insects and vegetation. Always opportunist, Walje also known that the king of catfish eats parts of dead fish.