Walking catfish
Clarias batrachus
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The walking catfish breathes air and can crawl over land between pools. It lives in still, muddy waters such as ditches and rice paddies and eats small fish, molluscs, invertebrates and plants. It is a food fish. The true species is from Java, Indonesia; many fish called by this name are similar species.
- Scientific name
- Clarias batrachus
- Family
- Clariidae
Fact sheet
General
- Water
- Freshwater
- Group
- Fish
Taxonomy
- Family
- Clariidae
- Order
- Siluriformes
- Synonyms
- Clarias assamensis, Clarias betrachus, Clarias punctatus, Clarius bartrachus, Clarius batrachus, Macropteronotus magur, Silurus batrachus
Origin
- Native region
- Ásia
Water
- Temperature
- 20–26 °C
- pH
- 5.5–8
- General hardness (GH)
- 2–25 °dGH
Size and lifespan
- Adult size
- 100 cm
- Minimum tank (volume)
- 2,268 L
- Minimum tank (length)
- 210 cm
Behavior
- Temperament
- Aggressive
- Swimming level
- Bottom
- Diet
- Carnivore
Care
- Care difficulty
- Moderate
Reproduction
- Breeding strategy
- Egg scatterer
Conservation and trade
- IUCN status
- Least concern (LC)
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