First of all there are over 2200 different catfish species that is 8% approximately for the entire fish species on our planet. That’s a lot of catfish species to choose from the Mekong catfish which can grow to over 12ft biggest fish know is 295 kilos and the wels can grow over 15ft towards 1000lbs comercialy caught, blue catfish flatheads mainly from the states as smaller with the odd bigger blue catfish found in untouched waters as far as European catfish go the wells is the largest.

Secondly catfish inhabit every continent of the world expect the extreme cold climates of Antarctica where it would be almost impossible for the catfish to breed due to the amount of time the water is frozen.

A small catfish can have when 8inches long approximately will have literally over 250.000 receptors along there body. One of the myths of catfish is this because people think they have poor eyesight this is true but the compensation of having thousands of receptors will enable a catfish to hear anglers on the bank at over 150mts away not necessary spooking the fish, but sometimes the catfish will take interest and anglers story’s of catfish swirling in front of them. Is part of the evidence this happens?

One very important piece of information is that catfish do not have ears they have a body filled with receptors. These signals that are received through the receptors. Then transmitted to the swim bladder through an intense and complicated nerve system. This enables to the catfish to perfectly hone in on there prey with the most accurate precision therefore making the wells catfish one of the top predators in the world.

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